fezziwig comments on Rationality Quotes February 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 07 February 2014 03:30:30PM 2 points [-]

Original source unknown (at least to me).

Here you go

If your best isn't enough then God won't save you, your parents won't save you, Superman won't save you. You just...don't get whatever it is you wanted.

Not necessarily. There's Lady Luck :-)

Comment author: fezziwig 07 February 2014 04:11:27PM 1 point [-]

Thanks for the link, but that's not the original source ;-)

Comment author: Lumifer 07 February 2014 04:18:39PM 0 points [-]

How are you distinguishing the true original source from the it-is-actually-secondary "original" source?

Comment author: fezziwig 07 February 2014 04:35:36PM *  5 points [-]

By age. Despair, Inc, which invented the demotivator, was incorporated in 1998. I first ran across the quote on Usenet in 1994 or 1995.

Comment author: Lumifer 07 February 2014 04:46:57PM 1 point [-]

Ah, a good point. It's interesting that Google in unable to locate this quote before it became a demotivator.

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