Variant: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong”
“If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.”
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
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The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers. I don't need to know the difference between a children's book and an adult one; it's the questions that have come from thinking about it that are important. I wish we'd stop finding answers for everything. One of the reasons my generation has mucked up the world to such an extent is our loss of the sense of the mysterious.
47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
“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
“I don't have to answer. Until you know the question.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium.”
"Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" in Farming: A Hand Book (1970).
Poems
“If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.”
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 101.
Yogiisms
