#QuoteInvestigator

2025-03-13

Lies, damned lies and statistics
A process to track down the REAL originators of quotes. Try this at samyoung.co.nz/2025/03/lies-da
#Quote #QuoteInvestigator #Disraeli #Twain #Mackay #Academic

2024-11-17

Seeing this quote on a poster tacked to a wall in High School somewhere gave me an interest in Camus. I'm glad I ended up reading him even if the quote didn't come from him until 1971 years after he died.

> Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend

quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/
#AttributionIssues #AlbertCamus #WalkBesideMe #QuoteInvestigator

Óli Gneisti (English)oligneisti@social.linux.pizza
2024-04-19

I think the reason why #GoogleSuggestedQuestions falsely attributes this line to #Gandhi is because the information is from the #BritishMedicalJournal and #Google thinks the BMJ is trustworthy but the search engine can't compute that the journal is an authority on medicine, not #quotes. Google also fails to differentiate between opinion and #PeerReview.

Google should "know" that #WikiQuote and #QuoteInvestigator are much better at this.

Like the @neilhimself quote:

quoteinvestigator.com/2016/04/

2024-01-08

Oh, great.
The Boss just posted an inspirational New Year’s message with »›The best way to predict the future is to create it.‹ Mark Twain«.
#MarkTwain isn’t even on the list of people that didn’t (!) say it at Quote Investigator.

quoteinvestigator.com/2012/09/

#QuoteInvestigator

2023-03-18

So true.

"(1) Every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
(2) Every moment you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of joy.
[...]
None of the early instances found by QI [Quote Investigator] provided an ascription. Thus, the originator remains anonymous."

quoteinvestigator.com/2023/03/

#Quotes #QuoteInvestigator

2023-02-06

@Dianora There's no evidence that Twain ever said this, which should be taken as he did not say it until proven otherwise. The lack of evidence is confirmed by:

#Snopes:
snopes.com/fact-check/did-mark

Quote investigator:
quoteinvestigator.com/2020/12/

And most importantly by the Mark Twain Project, as cited by Snopes.

There are so many fake or misattributed #quotes floating around the web, a cottage industry of websites generating #memes like this one in fact. It's only going to get worse with these damn #AI #chatbots generating more garbage. #garbageingarbageout #quoteinvestigator

George Dinwiddiegdinwiddie
2022-12-20
2019-07-22

Tracing the history of this interesting quotation: "It Is Quite As Important To Know What Kind of a Patient the Disease Has Got As To Know What Kind of a Disease the Patient Has Got"

#Quotations #QuoteInvestigator #History

quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07/

2019-01-10

Evidence there was a time traveller from the present in 1969! :-) An eerily accurate quote about reading ebooks on the phone.

#Quotes #QuoteInvestigator #History #Ebooks #Predictions

quoteinvestigator.com/2019/01/

2018-11-08

Quote Investigator looks at the origins of Google's motto, "Don’t Be Evil".

#Quotes #QuoteInvestigator #Research #Attributions

quoteinvestigator.com/2018/11/

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