“The Gandhi quote” appears to be apocryphal. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations .
With today’s Internet, when someone says that famous person X said awesome thing Y, the first thing you should do is search for confirmation. It can keep you from being embarrassed.
confirmation
Disconfirmation.
the first thing you should do is search for confirmation
There ought to be a clever turn of phrase for what Google ‘thinks’ on the first page verses what you find when you dig a little deeper.
“For every interesting question there is a wrong answer with a high page rank.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Intriguingly, no one seems to have any idea where the quote came from.
“The Gandhi quote” appears to be apocryphal. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations .
With today’s Internet, when someone says that famous person X said awesome thing Y, the first thing you should do is search for confirmation. It can keep you from being embarrassed.
Disconfirmation.
There ought to be a clever turn of phrase for what Google ‘thinks’ on the first page verses what you find when you dig a little deeper.
“For every interesting question there is a wrong answer with a high page rank.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Intriguingly, no one seems to have any idea where the quote came from.