#riddles for daniel

[synernist-supervisor]

Are you cheating? [Squints] Fine, try this: I am sneaky and pesky and when I seek for truth, it often gets me in trouble. But without me, there would be no progress. Who am I?

What? I... Wait. Wait. It's. There has to be a... logical sort of...

-fzzt-

... It's too open-ended. I don't. I don't know. you're implying there's a person but how could it possibly be a person if-- ... What??