“In my experience one of the most common causes for programs, products, and change initiatives that don't work is that the wrong question has been asked.”

“If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong”

“Experience by itself teaches nothing…Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence without theory there is no learning.”

“Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.”

“Traditionally, grammar has always been a grammar of written language: and it has always been a product grammar" ['Product' is here used as one term of the Hjelmslevian pair process/product. ] A process/product distinction is a relevant one for linguists because it corresponds to that between our experience of speech and our experience of writing: writing exists whereas speech happens.”

“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.”

“A program that has not been tested does not work.”

“Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.”

“Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.”

“It has been my experience that a bi-product of order is preparedness. And if chance favors the prepared mind, then I am ready!”