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Taking Einstein's name in vain
QUOTATIONS, Albert Einstein said, "do not give your Tweets even the dubious benefits of the Argument from Authority". Except, of course, that he didn't say that. We nevertheless predict that any day now our fake quote will appear online in Comic Sans type overlaid on a shock-haired portrait. That would be an Internet Meme, Your Honour.
Especially annoying to us at the moment is the purported pensée from the great physicist holding that "I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots." He almost certainly didn't say that either. But it has been deployed thousands of times, often to deplore the way These Young People use technology.
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