“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
Contributions of Jane Wagner
Source: Many Moons
“If one could always choose the right question, then every answer could be as obvious.”
— Steven Erikson, book Midnight Tides
Midnight Tides (2004)
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Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”
Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress
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“If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
“What would you do if you could not fail. Answer that question and do that.”
Cory Booker (1969) 35th Class 2 senator for New Jersey in U.S. Congress
Quoting his mother, in [Ray, Elaine, Cory Booker encourages students to use their moral imaginations to work for good, https://news.stanford.edu/thedish/2016/02/24/cory-booker-encourages-students-to-use-their-moral-imaginations-to-work-for-good/, Stanford University, 21 August 2018, February 24, 2016], as quoted in [Ross, Janell, Six noteworthy things about Cory Booker, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/25/six-noteworthy-things-about-cory-booker/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8842f22736b9, 21 August 2018, The Washington Post, July 25, 2016]
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John Tukey (1915–2000) American mathematician
The future of data analysis. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 33 (1), (1962), page 13.
Variant: "An approximate answer to the right question is worth a great deal more than a precise answer to the wrong question." "as the renowned statistician John Tukey once reportedly said," according to Super Freakonomics page 224.
