Wrong Answers Quotes

• There are no right answers to wrong questions.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Peace, Asking Questions, Questions And Answers

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.139, Ultramarine Publishing

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• The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.

  David Rock

  Stopping, Answers, Emerging

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• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

  Antony Jay

  Inspirational, Educational, Creativity

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Truth, War, Asking Questions

  Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

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• Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

  N. T. Wright

  Difficult Questions, Right Answers, Answers

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny Inspirational, Freedom, Business

  "The Divine Afflatus". New York Evening Mail, November 16, 1917; reprinted in H. L. Mencken "Prejudices: Second Series", 1920, and in "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing" edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Mistake, Asking

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• There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Business, Simple Solutions, Neat And Tidy

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.443, Vintage

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• Silence was never a wrong answer.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Silence, Answers

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.136, Scholastic UK

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• The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

  Ward Cunningham

  Way, Computer, Internet

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• There is not a right and a wrong answer to every question.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Answers

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• To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

  Janet Jackson

  Confused, Cutting, Confusion

  Janet Jackson, David Ritz (2011). “True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, People, Personality

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• Anyone can notice wrong answers. It takes the creative person to notice the wrong questions.

  Josh Linkner

  Creative, Persons, Answers

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2011

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• The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question.

  Bruce Mau

  Different, Answers, Right Answers

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• You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Science, Numbers, Giving

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• The conventional asset-allocation method is like sheet music. It is prescribed, it has right answers and wrong answers and it sounds about the same every time. But jamming is different. Jamming is when you make the music. When you improvise and adapt to conditions. When you are creative.

  John Kao

  Creative, Sound, Different

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

  Jeremy Narby

  Mean, Ideas, Understanding

  Jeremy Narby (2016). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• Ask most people who live in a home and have a mortgage on it whether they own their own home and the answer is almost guaranteed to be a resounding 'yes'. Yet it's the wrong answer. Technically speaking, until they have paid the mortgage off, they don't own it. Herein lies the difference between reality and illusion, between ownership and control. This confusion lies not only at the individual level, but also at the heart of government thinking.

  Dambisa Moyo

  Lying, Home, Heart

  Dambisa Moyo (2011). “How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• My real friends never hearin from me, fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me

  Drake

  Fake Friends, Fake People, Real

  Song: Right Above It

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• I can't help thinking if she-the director of a government agency-is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from-how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

  Matthew Lesko

  Business, Thinking, Agency

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• The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Data, Mind, Add

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• Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because They're not efficient. (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.)

  Brian Kernighan

  Mean, Firsts, Dimensions

  Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill

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• I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

  Peter Kay

  Thinking, Animal, Ideas

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• The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions. I think just about any moral theory, worked out intelligently, and applied with good judgment, would get just about the same results as any other.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Moral, Problem

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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