“If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.”
John Major (1943) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Attributed to Major by Vernon Bogdanor, " Why the Lords doesn't need more politicians http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/02/11/do1104.xml", Sunday Telegraph, 11 February 2007 <br class="br">Attributed
“If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (1968) Danish programmer and creator of PHP
PHP.net: eval http://php.net/eval, Anonymous comment, 2004 <br class="br"> PHP in a Nutshell https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/php-in-a/0596100671/re47.html by Paul Hudson, 2005
“If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
“Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.”
Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow
Variant: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
Susanne K. Langer book Philosophy in a New Key
Source: Philosophy in a New Key (1942), Ch. 1, p. 1
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.
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 75
On why the Yankees lost the 1960 series to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Yogiisms
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury book The Use of Life
The Use of Life (1894), ch. VI: National Education <br class="br">Source: The Use of Life http://archive.org/details/uselife02lubbgoog/page/n114/mode/2up on Archive.Org, pages 102—103
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Il termine "Sticazzi" dedicato ad un brutto evento, persone sbagliate, errori commessi o torti ricevuti: è un salvavita. Naturale. Economico ed efficace.
Source: prevale.net
