FiftyTwo comments on Rationality Quotes April 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MikeDobbs 05 April 2013 11:51:43PM -1 points [-]

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

-- Albert Einstein

Comment author: FiftyTwo 08 April 2013 02:33:09AM 3 points [-]

Source? Wikiquote seems to think its a misquote.

Comment author: shminux 24 April 2013 10:15:01PM 2 points [-]

Isn't there a law or something stating that Einstein never said 99% of what's attributed to him? Or maybe that the accuracy of quote's attribution is inversely proportional to the person's fame?

Comment author: TheOtherDave 24 April 2013 11:16:10PM 1 point [-]

Well, it's unsurprising that misattributed quotes are more often attributed to famous people than to unknown people.

Comment author: MikeDobbs 24 April 2013 09:44:53PM 1 point [-]

Thanks FiftyTwo- I just looked up the article you refer to and it indicates that it may be a paraphrase of a longer quote. I heard this from Anthony Robbins, this quote is attributed to Einstein in some of his literature. It seems that the sentiment, if not the exact quote, seem to be attributable to Einstein