Randy Pausch Quotes

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

The question is just as important as the answer.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

One reads in order to ask questions

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.