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Q&A: Broken Clocks and a Hot Air Balloon

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Broken Clocks and a Hot Air Balloon

Question

I had a comment about the famous question of whether a stopped clock is better than a wrong clock.

Obviously a wrong clock is better, because you can figure out the time from it. A broken clock is useless, because you don’t know when it’s right. This is the same as the mathematician’s answer to the people in the balloon (“Where are we?” “In the sky.”) because it is 100% correct and still contains no information.

Maybe your next book can be called
A Hot Air Balloon and a Broken Clock
You don’t need to thank me in the introduction.

Answer

Can you make it even more banal and clueless?

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