Arthur Bloch – Quote Investigator®

Quote Origin: I Would Rather Have Questions That Can’t Be Answered Than Answers That Can’t Be Questioned

Richard Feynman? Daniel Dennett? J. J. Hahn? ArthurBloch? Apocryphal? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Here are two instances from a family of sayings about questions and answers: (1) Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. (2) I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than …

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If Builders Built Buildings the Way Programmers Wrote Programs, Then the First Woodpecker That Came Along Would Destroy Civilization

Gerald Weinberg? Conrad Schneiker? Arthur Bloch? Clifford Stoll? Dennis Hall? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: Computer programs are not resilient. Small errors can cause a program to malfunction. In the 1960s a spacecraft bound for Venus quickly veered off course because a single character in the guidance program was accidentally omitted. This dangerous situation necessitated a …

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