On Fri, 5 Jun 2026 12:31:18 -0700 "James H. H. Lampert" <[email protected]> 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
