“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
“If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.”
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. 101.
Yogiisms
“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
His reply to a shoe manufacturer who had asked why Miller's job should be subsidized when his was not, as recounted at a London press conference. The Guardian (25 January 1990)
Ian Bremmer (1969) American political scientist
"Diary of a Political Scientist," http://www.slate.com/id/2094743/entry/2095060/ Slate (February 5, 2004).
“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