Question Answering Quotes

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

Unfortunately when we get to the “debates” as we all know these are never debates. There are questions where there is never a follow up, where you ask a question and I the candidate give an answer that has nothing to do with your question, and then we go on and somebody else asks the other person and back and forth. It is not just the fault of the candidates. We tend to have to have a simple short answer to complex problems for the sound byte requirements of modern journalism and perhaps the education levels of the average citizen. Complex problems can’t be reduced to that.

I'm kind of fascinated by this idea that we can surround ourselves with information: we can just pile up data after data after data and arm ourselves with facts and yet still not be able to answer the questions that we have.

I believe, with the media, you must answer every question in some way. And in very, very, touchy situations, we must answer every question again and again.

I didn't want to be out of order answering any questions.

Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems.

All I am saying is that if you want to answer a question, then we need to examine and weigh up the evidence. To me, that's not dogmatic that's just... what else would you do?

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.

If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.

Talking-head shows are just a camera, a sound guy, and then a PA writing down what you say and a producer asking you questions. And you're just supposed to rephrase the question and add a joke to it. Figuring out how to do that was super hard.

I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.

Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.

Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

When I get the questions, I answer what I can answer. If they ask me about the match, I cannot really say that I like eating bananas.

Because I come from the place of interviewing, I know how to answer a question giving you what you need to hear and not a minute more.

Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.

We're quite fortunate on 'The Chase,' we get to sit very still and you can concentrate on one thing at one time - the questions.

I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.

I'm aware of the fact that I don't know how to do it all, but I want for my blog to be a place where people can come to ask questions so that I can look for the answers for them. That's the kind of work that I did for my books, and I want to transition that to my blog for more of a community feel.