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Suspicious Quotes
(sopuli.xyz)
Have you noticed that many quotes attributed to famous people are actually incorrect? When someone sends me one of these fancy quotes of profound wisdom, it looks really suspicious to me if:
- It’s a picture (as in, not text in a technical sense)
- It’s attributed to someone famous
- There’s a picture of that person
- There’s no source
When I start looking into it, I usually end up reading a quote investigator article that says the original line was written a few hundred of years ago, got mutated many times along the way, and eventually was coupled with the name of someone like Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein or whatever.
BTW I put that picture together using Imgflip’s meme generator. Seemed appropriate.
Oh, wow. That’s a new one. I don’t use Facebook or Xitter, so I guess that’s why I don’t bump into breathtakingly amazing stuff like that.