[Speaking of computers] But they are useless. They can only give you answers.
As discussed in this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/05/computers-useless/#more-2932, the origin seems to be the article "Pablo Picasso: A Composite Interview" by William Fifield which appeared in The Paris Review 32, Summer-Fall 1964, and collected a number of interviews Fifield had done with Picasso.
Common later variant: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." This variant seems to have arisen in the 1980s, the earliest known appearance in a book is Herman Feshbach, "Reflections on the Microprocessor Revolution: A Physicist's Viewpoint", in Man and Technology (1983), ed. Bruce M. Adkins, where the attribution is described as "rumoured". http://books.google.com/books?id=9EohAQAAIAAJ&q=Picasso
1960s
„Počítače sú nanič, dávajú nám iba odpovede.“
„Odpoveď bola, že sme si mysleli, že sa to dá urobiť.“
„Nudný človek je ten, kto na otázku, ako sa má, dá odpoveď.“
„Počujeme iba tie otázky, na ktoré vieme dať odpoveď.“
Prisudzované výroky
„Problémom škôl je, že vám najprv dajú odpoveď a potom otázku. O tom ale život nie je.“
„Ďalšia generácia špeciálneho softvéru sa vyrobí na počítačoch Macintosh, nie na počítačoch IBM.“
