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  • Misquote Was: Re: Power supplies and reliability

    From John Hasler@3:633/10 to All on Friday, June 05, 2026 20:20:01
    Joe wrote:
    Einstein allegedly said:

    "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and
    expecting different results"


    Einstein never said that.

    https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/
    --
    John Hasler
    john@sugarbit.com
    Elmwood, WI USA

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  • From Joe@3:633/10 to All on Friday, June 05, 2026 21:30:01
    On Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:10:07 -0500
    John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> wrote:

    Joe wrote:
    Einstein allegedly said:

    "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and
    expecting different results"


    Einstein never said that.

    https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/

    Yes, I'm aware of that, but the statement is still generally thought to
    be associated with him. That's why I included the word 'allegedly'.

    It doesn't really matter who said it, it exists, and is widely accepted
    as wisdom, which it isn't. He probably didn't say the one about dice,
    either, but again it is generally attributed to him.

    Now that the Internet is with us, we can see that nobody ever said
    anything that they were supposed to have said.

    --
    Joe

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  • From James H. H. Lampert@3:633/10 to All on Friday, June 05, 2026 21:40:01
    On 6/5/26 12:23 PM, Joe wrote:
    . . .
    Now that the Internet is with us, we can see that nobody ever said
    anything that they were supposed to have said.

    Or as Yogi Berra put it, "I never said most of the things I said."

    The version of the "doubtfully attributed to Einstein" quote that I use
    (and which does not appear in the article, but I know I picked it up somewhere) defines insanity as

    repeating the same action(s) *under the same conditions* and expecting different results.

    --
    JHHL

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  • From Joe@3:633/10 to All on Friday, June 05, 2026 22:30:01
    On Fri, 5 Jun 2026 12:31:18 -0700
    "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> wrote:

    On 6/5/26 12:23 PM, Joe wrote:
    . . .
    Now that the Internet is with us, we can see that nobody ever said
    anything that they were supposed to have said.

    Or as Yogi Berra put it, "I never said most of the things I said."

    The version of the "doubtfully attributed to Einstein" quote that I
    use (and which does not appear in the article, but I know I picked it
    up somewhere) defines insanity as

    repeating the same action(s) *under the same conditions* and
    expecting different results.


    ..making the statement worthless.

    Conditions are never repeated exactly, the originator of the statement,
    whoever it was, was not familiar with chaos and the behaviour of the
    Quantum Weather Butterfly. This line of discussion started with the
    complete unpredictability of the ripple voltages in a computer power
    supply system.

    --
    Joe

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