“Computers Are Useless. They Can Only Give You Answers” (2011)
I&#x27;m not sure this quote is as insightful as it&#x27;s made out to be.<p>Questions and answers are not a one-way system of thinking. Who hasn&#x27;t thought of more questions after being given an answer?<p>For example, statistics require a computer to calculate. They answer questions like &quot;what is the unemployment rate?&quot;. Once you get a number, say a time series, you are going to ask &quot;what affects the unemployment rate&quot;, essentially asking what the generating function is. This in turn leads to more and more calculations, a whole web causality.<p>So computers are not providing questions any less than answers.