• abir_vandergriff@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The friggin “definition of insanity” quote that is usually misattributed to Einstein. From some cursory research, a lot of first appearances of the quote come from the 80s, though I saw a few different sources from Narcotics Anonymous pamphlets to mystery novels.

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      1 year ago

      Plus, it’s complete bullshit. Trying the same thing over and over, expecting different results, could describe practise, or experimentation.

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      1 year ago

      We all know it’s Vaas who said it first.

      Jokes aside though, misattributed quotes are quite the phenomenon. Is it deliberate? Is it some sort of mandela effect? It’s really weird sometimes, but like Gandhi said, don’t believe anything that comes without a verifiable source.