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Who made these remarks? A mathematician is a machine which turns coffee into theorems A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code A writer is a machine for turning coffee into poems quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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Did literary titan Victor Hugo say: The theater is not the realm of the real: there are cardboard trees, ... glass diamonds, tinsel gold, … The theater is the realm of the true: there are human hearts on the stage ... human hearts in the auditorium. quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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Shantha R. Mohan, Ph.D., DTM@ShanthaRMohan
Jun 10
Did she or didn't she?
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Did fashion maven Coco Chanel present the following fashion guideline emphasizing simplicity? One always begins by making dream dresses. Then one has to take away something. Always to take off, never to add quoteinvestigator.com/2023/0… This is an updated Quote Investigator article
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Did fashion maven Coco Chanel present the following fashion guideline emphasizing simplicity? One always begins by making dream dresses. Then one has to take away something. Always to take off, never to add quoteinvestigator.com/2023/0… This is an updated Quote Investigator article
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Jun 8
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I should imagine that it was said by the ancient Greeks. Most things are. Only phrased better.
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Did super-investor Warren Buffett coin the following saying? It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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QI article about a quip misattributed to Terry Pratchett has been updated with a 1905 precursor citation Quip Origin: In Ancient Times Cats Were Worshipped As Gods; They Have Not Forgotten This quoteinvestigator.com/2024/0…
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Hellen Keller presented a remarkable description of the tumultuous changes to her inner life: Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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A science fiction author presented a radical opinion about machine intelligence when he said the following. Who was it? We should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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Assigning that mawkish drivel to Shakespeare is an insult, not just to Shakespeare, but to everyone with a brain.
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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Is the advice above really from William Shakespeare or motivational author William Arthur Ward? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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For ’twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. ’Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Did a famous actress and singer from the Golden Age of Hollywood write the lines above? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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In physics, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes Was physicist Max Planck given this discouraging advice when he was a student in the 1870s? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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The following is credited to a famous comedian and concert pianist. Who? Laughter is the shortest distance between two people quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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This might be the book and passage about Kandinsky you are recalling. Combine these three snippets from Google Books to see the passage. 1980, Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style by Rose-Carol Washton Long @BrianSJ3 @robvank
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Shantha R. Mohan, Ph.D., DTM@ShanthaRMohan
May 13
Love this quote! Will QI solve the mystery of its origin?
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. What is the provenance of the saying above: Rabindranath Tagore? Rabbinic Saying? Arabic Proverb? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. What is the provenance of the saying above: Rabindranath Tagore? Rabbinic Saying? Arabic Proverb? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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Shantha R. Mohan, Ph.D., DTM@ShanthaRMohan
May 9
Note: Praise when things go right.
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Nobody notices when things go right Who formulated the adage above and gave a voice to beleaguered workers everywhere: M. Zimmerman? Paul Dickson? Allan L. Otten? Bob Garing? Futurama? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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Nobody notices when things go right Who formulated the adage above and gave a voice to beleaguered workers everywhere: M. Zimmerman? Paul Dickson? Allan L. Otten? Bob Garing? Futurama? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0…
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May 8
8 years later we have an answer! Neither Fouche nor Talleyrand.
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Your request from way back on August 3, 2018, inspired the creation of a Quote Investigator article: It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder quoteinvestigator.com/2026/0… @PlanMaestro
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