On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:42:49 -0500, Paul wrote:
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein"

I've seen that attributed to Einstein recently, but it doesn't sound
to me like something he would say. And in fact, if he did say it,
nobody knew about it till the closing years of the twentieth century.
It's also been attributed to Ben Franklin, most likely also wrongly.

Quote: 'I respectfully suggest that the quote "The definition of
insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting it to
come out different" is a misattribution to both Franklin and
Einstein. According to Google news archive, the earliest news article
attributing the quote to Franklin is from 2004. The earliest
attribution to Einstein is 1998.'

Source:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:B...e_definition_o
f_insanity...

In the 1980's, people in twelve-step groups often repeated this quote
or a variant of it, but they never attributed it to Einstein or
anyone else. If Einstein actually had said it, I think an attribution
would have appeared long before 1998.

Further proof: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Narcotics_Anonymous
cites a 1981 use of the quote, and links to a PDF showing it (which I
didn't open).


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