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“There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.”

“Stop revolving between attribution, validation and attention. Start settling into compassion.”

Attention Compassion Validation Attribution

Author:Nitya Prakash

“The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you.”

Quotes Audience Fans Social Media Credit Amusement Facebook Attribution Diss

Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“Forgiveness means that you are willing to give someone else a second chance to breathe in new life in his body. That is one of the greatest attribution of a Leader.”

Inspirational Spirituality Leadership Forgiveness Attribution Chance Of Your Life

Author:Indy Bissessur

“Attribution is an enduring problem when it comes to forensic investigations. Computer attacks can be launched from anywhere in the world and routed through multiple hijacked machines or proxy servers to hide evidence of their source. Unless a hacker is sloppy about hiding his tracks, it's often not possible to unmask the perpetrator through digital evidence alone.”

Hacking Forensics Attribution Stuxnet

Author:Kim Zetter

“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.”

“Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to the next edition. 'Mother was right.' Author: Mrs. Bartlett, world-renowned nag. Year: 1859. Attribution: A short play entitled Every Goddamn Weekend!”

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Author:John Bartlett

“But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?”

Source: George Steiner: A Reader

“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.”

People Order Changed Computer Machines Intelligent Crowds Artificial Intelligence Nerd Fragments Deities Attribution

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.”

Purpose Fit Models Climate Climate Change Arguing Detection Attribution

Author:Judith Curry

“Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.”

Mind Able Century Late Addresses 20th Century Attribution

Author:Judith Curry

“We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.”

Artist Culture Fighting Force Constitution Driving Recognition Primaries Very Strong Promotion Copyright Driving Force Us Constitution Attribution

Author:Rick Falkvinge

“Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances”

People Self Influence Type Performances Efficacy Self Efficacy Attribution Perceived Self

Author:Albert Bandura

“Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy”

Children Self Ability Performances Attributes Efficacy Self Efficacy Attribution Perceived Self

Author:Albert Bandura

“I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.”

Want Feels Character Care Moving Speak Stuff Natural Don't Care Speed Dialogue Rhythm I Don't Care Quotations Grammar Attribution

Author:James Frey

“For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.”

Self Values Pride Glory Goods Attribution

Author:Thomas Merton

“False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.”

Discourse Bane Attribution

Author:Winston Smith

“In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish my doctorate, and so I had a deep respect for the brains, talent, and dedication of managers. That made it hard for me to believe the attributions in the business press that stupid management was to blame. So I looked elsewhere for an explanation.”

“First click attribution is akin to giving my first girlfriend 100% of the credit for me marrying my wife.”

Giving Firsts Technology Wife Credit My Wife Girlfriend Clicks Marrying Attribution Ecommerce

Author:Avinash Kaushik

“You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.”

Political Politics Complaining Motive Exposed Attribution

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of a Biblical prophet (modified by the material of the Muhammadan evangelium into an Arabian man of God) with a traditional message of salvation (modified by the influence of Rabbinic Judaism into the unmediated and finally immutable word of God).”

Men Influence Materials Involved Messages Salvation Islam Traditional Prophet Collections Word Of God Biblical Judaism Mosaics Arabian Man Of God Overlapping Attribution

Author:John Wansbrough

“Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it's become a distraction from the story, which still entirely stands. I should have been clearer about the attribution. We updated our story immediately.”

Should Has Beens Stills Stories Regret Should Have Distraction Email Should Have Been I Regret Attribution

Author:Jonathan Karl

“Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halper’s study is juicy and gossipy, yet scrupulously researched, drawing on numerous on-the-record conversations (as well as many not-for-attribution interviews) with prominent Democrats and Clinton insiders, past and present.”

Wells Past Study Records Blood Conversation Clinton Democrat Drawing Selling Narrative Interviews Scandal Prominent Past And Present Insiders Juicy Feuds Attribution

Author:Lloyd Grove

“We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.”

Understanding Car Machines Metaphor Attributes Umpires Analogies Cognitive Artifacts Attribution

Author:John Searle

“Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.”

Purpose Natural Cutting Example Tools Philosophical Ice Extensions Metaphorical Intentionality Attribution

Author:John Searle

“Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.”

Believe Reason Pieces Worship Stones Claims Monsters Admirable Idolatry Hideous Rationalism Omnipotence Attribution

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.”

Ifs Persons Said Facts Certain Statements Speakers Quotations Attribution

Author:Gary Saul Morson

“I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.”

Thinking Believe Kind Important Stuff Moral Issues Integrity Financial Creator Disposition Copyright Attribution

Author:Esther Dyson

“The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.”

Mind Wells Form Young Education Objects Training Organization Patterns Visuals Integrated Suitable Young Minds Clarification Attribution

Author:Rudolf Arnheim