Lies, damned lies and statistics
A process to track down the REAL originators of quotes. Try this at https://www.samyoung.co.nz/2025/03/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics.html
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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
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/23/friend/
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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:
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.
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde #attributednosource #beyourself #gilbertperreira #honesty #inspirational #misattributedoscarwilde #quoteinvestigator
https://www.shortwisdomquotes.com/oscar-wildes-quote-about-inspirational/
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."
@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:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-mark-twain-say-its-easier-to-fool-people-than-to-convince-them-that-they-have-been-fooled/
Quote investigator:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/12/23/fooled/
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
@jbrains The origin of that saying is murky.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/06/14/forgiveness/
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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"
Evidence there was a time traveller from the present in 1969! :-) An eerily accurate quote about reading ebooks on the phone.
Quote Investigator looks at the origins of Google's motto, "Don’t Be Evil".
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