
“If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong”
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
Attributed
“If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong”
“Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.”
Variant: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question.”
PHP.net: eval http://php.net/eval, Anonymous comment, 2004
PHP in a Nutshell https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/php-in-a/0596100671/re47.html by Paul Hudson, 2005
As quoted in The Writer's Quotation Book : A Literary Companion (1980) by James Charlton, p. 44
47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Original: (it) Quando si è bimbi si fanno tante domande pretendendo altrettante risposte. Quando si è adulti si evitano molte domande, per evitare inutili risposte.
Source: prevale.net
Source: Philosophy in a New Key (1942), Ch. 1, p. 1