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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And even if it were a sign of insanity, it would most certainly not be its definition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Damn right, yet another hole

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ehhhh, I want to agree but practice is expecting the same result, minor incremental improvement. In scientific experimentation, one should not be expecting anything, that's researcher bias.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, you're pedantic but you're right tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's a fair assessment honestly lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Or rolling a die.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I thought it was Lincoln who said you can't trust everything on the Internet? Sounds like Gandhi kinda stoled it, but changed it a little.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

> but like Gandhi said, don’t believe anything that comes without a verifiable source.

He totally said that! It's written down in the Internet so it is true!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back in Gandhi's time, you had to do the CSS formatting by hand as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then Gandhi invented the first autolinter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Man, I totally forgot that part. Dude was way before his time.