Nope. Not Einstein. It comes from the early 80s. There are two sources: a tennis murder mystery and the Narcotics Anonymous handbook. As you can see, we've been through this before :)
There are heaps more things Einstein never said, as well as Gandhi, Picasso, Leonardo, and other big names. Basically, the more you look into it, the more you find that if you have a favorite catchy quote by someone famous, they probably didn't say it.
(That meme is funny but long past its shelf life, so I'm going to reply seriously.)
But the internet makes it trivial to check these things, where it was decidedly nontrivial before. And the phenomenon of catchy quotes "hopping" to famous names is ancient, and probably why the great figures of history all seem so witty and smart.
When I was in high school someone quoted Churchill to me as having said (hilariously, I thought, and still do): "The pleasures of fornication are overrated and those of defecation underrated." But the internet tells me that Churchill probably never said this, nor the classic "up with which I shall not put" either (http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html). Sad, but better to know.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Albert Einstein
Nope. Not Einstein. It comes from the early 80s. There are two sources: a tennis murder mystery and the Narcotics Anonymous handbook. As you can see, we've been through this before :)
There are heaps more things Einstein never said, as well as Gandhi, Picasso, Leonardo, and other big names. Basically, the more you look into it, the more you find that if you have a favorite catchy quote by someone famous, they probably didn't say it.
One can never trust the veracity of an attribution on the Internet. -- Abe Lincoln
(That meme is funny but long past its shelf life, so I'm going to reply seriously.)
But the internet makes it trivial to check these things, where it was decidedly nontrivial before. And the phenomenon of catchy quotes "hopping" to famous names is ancient, and probably why the great figures of history all seem so witty and smart.
When I was in high school someone quoted Churchill to me as having said (hilariously, I thought, and still do): "The pleasures of fornication are overrated and those of defecation underrated." But the internet tells me that Churchill probably never said this, nor the classic "up with which I shall not put" either (http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html). Sad, but better to know.