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Original article at: http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/10-amazing-lessons-albert-einstein.html http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/10-amazing-lessons-albe.

Original article at: http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/10-amazing-lessons-albert-einstein.html http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/10-amazing-lessons-albe... I hate when people does this. That is, polluting the net. They truly suck.

joering2 15y ago
Yeah, totally agree with you. Wouldnt be nice if Paulo added where he got it from? "by PAULO COELHO on MARCH 16, 2012"
- gbaygon 15y ago
  At the end of the article it reads "Source: Dumb little man"
  - joering2 15y ago
    I dont think it was there before
jpdoctor 15y ago
Even worse when the quotes are misattributed, eg the "insanity" quote is Rita Mae Brown, and she was paraphrasing Narcotics Anonymous. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results." [Rita Mae] Brown did include this quote in her book Sudden Death (Bantam Books, New York, 1983), p. 68, but it appears she was just paraphrasing a quote that had already been written elsewhere. The earliest known appearance of a similar quote is the "approval version" of the Narcotics Anonymous "Basic Text" released in November 1981, which included the quote "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." A pdf scan of the 1981 approval version can be found here, with the quote appearing on p. 11 (p. 25 of the pdf), at the end of the fourth paragraph (which begins "We have a disease; progressive, incurable and fatal"). http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown#Misattributed http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown#Misattributed
- cft 15y ago
  As some who co-founded quantum mechanics, Einstein would never have said such a stupid thing. You expect to get different results from doing the same measurement in the same quantum mechanical system, that's the basis of it.
  - jpdoctor 15y ago
    > You expect to get different results from doing the same measurement in the same quantum mechanical system, that's the basis of it. As it turns out, AE had a problem with that particular point. Hence his "[God] does not play dice" quote.
- gruseom 15y ago
  Bravo! Do this more :) Incidentally, Sudden Death is a tennis murder mystery - how many of those are there? Rita Mae Brown was Martina Navratilova's partner for a few years. And she's actually pretty cool: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1723482,00.html http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1723482,00.html. "I'll go to my grave knowing I didn't back down."

joering2 15y ago

Yeah, totally agree with you. Wouldnt be nice if Paulo added where he got it from? "by PAULO COELHO on MARCH 16, 2012"

gbaygon 15y ago
At the end of the article it reads "Source: Dumb little man"
- joering2 15y ago
  I dont think it was there before

jpdoctor 15y ago

Even worse when the quotes are misattributed, eg the "insanity" quote is Rita Mae Brown, and she was paraphrasing Narcotics Anonymous. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results." [Rita Mae] Brown did include this quote in her book Sudden Death (Bantam Books, New York, 1983), p. 68, but it appears she was just paraphrasing a quote that had already been written elsewhere. The earliest known appearance of a similar quote is the "approval version" of the Narcotics Anonymous "Basic Text" released in November 1981, which included the quote "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." A pdf scan of the 1981 approval version can be found here, with the quote appearing on p. 11 (p. 25 of the pdf), at the end of the fourth paragraph (which begins "We have a disease; progressive, incurable and fatal"). http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown#Misattributed http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown#Misattributed

cft 15y ago
As some who co-founded quantum mechanics, Einstein would never have said such a stupid thing. You expect to get different results from doing the same measurement in the same quantum mechanical system, that's the basis of it.
- jpdoctor 15y ago
  > You expect to get different results from doing the same measurement in the same quantum mechanical system, that's the basis of it. As it turns out, AE had a problem with that particular point. Hence his "[God] does not play dice" quote.
gruseom 15y ago
Bravo! Do this more :) Incidentally, Sudden Death is a tennis murder mystery - how many of those are there? Rita Mae Brown was Martina Navratilova's partner for a few years. And she's actually pretty cool: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1723482,00.html http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1723482,00.html. "I'll go to my grave knowing I didn't back down."