The Starmaker <[email protected]> wrote:
J. J. Lodder wrote:
gharnagel <[email protected]> wrote:
Maciej Wozniak wrote:
is a matter of ergonomy. Not a mater
of some delusional "Law of Nature" invented
by an insane crazie.
You can gedanke/imagine "perfect", "proper",
"correct" clocks perfectly obedient to you.
But you can't enforce your madness on real
clocks. Anyone can check GPS, sorry, poor
halfbrains, you're - simply - not important
enough.
The first satellite went up with an accurate clock.
It didn't work right. A switch was thrown to change
the timebase to agree with the "insane crazy" -- and
lo and behold, it worked.
"If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid."
-- Naval Ops Manual
Wozzie keeps repeating the same misinformation, hoping
for emotional support for his derangement.
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results." -- Albert Einstein
Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
anything like this?
Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?
Jan
(doubting it)
He concludes his letter, ironically: "I am now completely ripe for the insaneasylum‰
https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol13-doc/38
Certainly, but this is not the phrase wanted.
I Had the opportunity to look it up in the meantime.
It is in the 'ultimate quotable Einstein',
in the 'attributed to' part.
This is an error, it should be in the 'not by Einstein' section.
======
*Insanity is doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results.
By Rita Mae Brown, in Sudden Death (New York: Bantam,
1983), 68. Thanks to Barbara Wolff for the source.
=====
So an invention from well after Einstein's death,
by someone without any connection to either physics or Einstein. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown>
And looking that up, in that book,
I find that there isn't any real Einstein in the book.
The phrase is there, in the dialogue,
but it is said by a character in the book who is nicknamed 'Einstein', presumably because she is supposed to have brains.
So it is all bunk, and it has nothing to do with the real Einstein,
Jan
The Starmaker <[email protected]> wrote:
[recovered from the Bozo Bin, for once]
If you want me to reply you shouldn't crosspost.
J. J. Lodder wrote:
The Starmaker <[email protected]> wrote:
J. J. Lodder wrote:
[-]gharnagel <[email protected]> wrote:
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results." -- Albert Einstein
Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
anything like this?
Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?
Jan
(doubting it)
aneHe concludes his letter, ironically: "I am now completely ripe for the ins
asylumâ•°
https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol13-doc/38
Certainly, but this is not the phrase wanted.
I Had the opportunity to look it up in the meantime.
It is in the 'ultimate quotable Einstein',
in the 'attributed to' part.
This is an error, it should be in the 'not by Einstein' section.
======
*Insanity is doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results.
By Rita Mae Brown, in Sudden Death (New York: Bantam,
1983), 68. Thanks to Barbara Wolff for the source.
=====
So an invention from well after Einstein's death,
by someone without any connection to either physics or Einstein. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown>
And looking that up, in that book,
I find that there isn't any real Einstein in the book.
The phrase is there, in the dialogue,
but it is said by a character in the book who is nicknamed 'Einstein', presumably because she is supposed to have brains.
So it is all bunk, and it has nothing to do with the real Einstein,
Jan
But it is not what you wrote. You wrote:
"Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
anything like this?
Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?"
ever having said
anything like this?
anything like this?
"anything"
in any degree; to any extent; in any way; at all:
any thing whatever; something, no matter what: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/anything
You didn't say "exactly that", you said..."anything".
I posted anything.
I don't know what the 'year 1983' has to do with Einstein.
Didn't he died before the year 1983???
Why are yous people looking for quotes AFTER he died??? dats dumb.
Pfft. Do read.
The quotation is correct, the source I found for it is correct,
and has nothing at all to do with Albert Einstein.
It is a mis-attribution,
Jan
J. J. Lodder wrote:
The Starmaker <[email protected]> wrote:
[recovered from the Bozo Bin, for once]
If you want me to reply you shouldn't crosspost.
J. J. Lodder wrote:
The Starmaker <[email protected]> wrote:
J. J. Lodder wrote:
[-]gharnagel <[email protected]> wrote:
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results." -- Albert Einstein
Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
anything like this?
Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?
Jan
(doubting it)
aneHe concludes his letter, ironically: "I am now completely ripe for the ins
asylumâ•°
https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol13-doc/38
Certainly, but this is not the phrase wanted.
I Had the opportunity to look it up in the meantime.
It is in the 'ultimate quotable Einstein',
in the 'attributed to' part.
This is an error, it should be in the 'not by Einstein' section.
======
*Insanity is doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results.
By Rita Mae Brown, in Sudden Death (New York: Bantam,
1983), 68. Thanks to Barbara Wolff for the source.
=====
So an invention from well after Einstein's death,
by someone without any connection to either physics or Einstein. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown>
And looking that up, in that book,
I find that there isn't any real Einstein in the book.
The phrase is there, in the dialogue,
but it is said by a character in the book who is nicknamed 'Einstein', presumably because she is supposed to have brains.
So it is all bunk, and it has nothing to do with the real Einstein,
Jan
But it is not what you wrote. You wrote:
"Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
anything like this?
Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?"
ever having said
anything like this?
anything like this?
"anything"
in any degree; to any extent; in any way; at all:
any thing whatever; something, no matter what: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/anything
You didn't say "exactly that", you said..."anything".
I posted anything.
I don't know what the 'year 1983' has to do with Einstein.
Didn't he died before the year 1983???
Why are yous people looking for quotes AFTER he died??? dats dumb.
Pfft. Do read.
The quotation is correct, the source I found for it is correct,
and has nothing at all to do with Albert Einstein.
It is a mis-attribution,
Jan
"mis-attribution"????
You sure it is not a 1983..plagaraism?
The Starmaker wrote:
J. J. Lodder wrote:
The Starmaker <[email protected]> wrote:
[recovered from the Bozo Bin, for once]
If you want me to reply you shouldn't crosspost.
J. J. Lodder wrote:
The Starmaker <[email protected]> wrote:
J. J. Lodder wrote:
[-]gharnagel <[email protected]> wrote:
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -- Albert Einstein
Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
anything like this?
Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?
Jan
(doubting it)
aneHe concludes his letter, ironically: "I am now completely ripe for the ins
asylumâ•°
https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol13-doc/38
Certainly, but this is not the phrase wanted.
I Had the opportunity to look it up in the meantime.
It is in the 'ultimate quotable Einstein',
in the 'attributed to' part.
This is an error, it should be in the 'not by Einstein' section.
======
*Insanity is doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results.
By Rita Mae Brown, in Sudden Death (New York: Bantam,
1983), 68. Thanks to Barbara Wolff for the source.
=====
So an invention from well after Einstein's death,
by someone without any connection to either physics or Einstein. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown>
And looking that up, in that book,
I find that there isn't any real Einstein in the book.
The phrase is there, in the dialogue,
but it is said by a character in the book who is nicknamed 'Einstein',
presumably because she is supposed to have brains.
So it is all bunk, and it has nothing to do with the real Einstein,
Jan
But it is not what you wrote. You wrote:
"Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
anything like this?
Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?"
ever having said
anything like this?
anything like this?
"anything"
in any degree; to any extent; in any way; at all:
any thing whatever; something, no matter what: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/anything
You didn't say "exactly that", you said..."anything".
I posted anything.
I don't know what the 'year 1983' has to do with Einstein.
Didn't he died before the year 1983???
Why are yous people looking for quotes AFTER he died??? dats dumb.
Pfft. Do read.
The quotation is correct, the source I found for it is correct,
and has nothing at all to do with Albert Einstein.
It is a mis-attribution,
Jan
"mis-attribution"????
You sure it is not a 1983..plagaraism?
J. J. Lodder lives in a world where everytime Albert Einstein utters a word someone behind him is writing it down!
gharnagel <[email protected]> wrote:
J. J. Lodder wrote:
The Starmaker <[email protected]> wrote:
But it is not what you wrote. You wrote:
"Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
anything like this?
Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?"
Pfft. Do read.
The quotation is correct, the source I found for it is correct,
and has nothing at all to do with Albert Einstein.
It is a mis-attribution,
Jan
Well, apparently it does have something to do with Einstein, a
character in a book referred to as Einstein. But thanks for the correction. I'll put quotes around "Einstein" when I use that
quote in the future :-)
It seems that in some circles 'Einstein' is used
jocularly as a nickname for a supposedly smart person.
I have also seen 'Sheldon' used in a similar way.
(after the hero of the 'Big Bang Theory')
Ascribing anything said by such a person to the real historical Einstein
is not the right way of going about it.
Even 'ascribed to Einstein' is just plain wrong,
Jan
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