I often say "I dunno, but I'd love to figure it out" because its true. I enjoy learning how to do new things and the reaction i usually see from others is revulsion and rejection. People get set to teach something and I'm already asking the nagging "but doesn't this invalidate that rule?" questions with complicated answers they were never comfortable with anyway. Or reinventing a wheel that works fine because i want to know how it works inside.<p>Conversely, admitting you don't know and accepting assistance with meek grace makes one very popular. Almost everybody loves to help others. If the goal is to build a team, make friends, increase the social cohesiveness of the enterprise, then its a good thing. If the goal was actually figuring out the solution to a problem, then maybe not so much.