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* A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
* A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
==Peter Drucker (1909-2005)==
==Peter Drucker (1909—2005)==
* The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers, it is to find the right question. For there are few things as useless—if not dangerous—as the right answer to the wrong question.
* The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers, it is to find the right question. For there are few things as useless—if not dangerous—as the right answer to the wrong question.
''Men, Ideas and Politics'', Harvard Business Review Press, 2010
''Men, Ideas and Politics'', Harvard Business Review Press, 2010
Quoted in [http://asq.org/quality-progress/2012/03/statistics-roundtable-right-answer-wrong-query.html Right Answer, Wrong Query], Statistics Roundtable, Quality Progress, March 2010.
==John Tukey (1915—2000)==
* Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
"Sunset Salvo," The American Statistician, Vol. 40, No. 1, 1986, pp. 72-76.
Quoted in [http://asq.org/quality-progress/2012/03/statistics-roundtable-right-answer-wrong-query.html Right Answer, Wrong Query], Statistics Roundtable, Quality Progress, March 2010.
==Jerome Bruner (born 1915)==
==Jerome Bruner (born 1915)==