Quotes About Attribution

You would need to see consistently bad results across a number of studies to be convinced. And that has yet to be shown.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame.

We often overattribute efficiency to the technologies we are accustomed to.

So far no one has claimed responsibility.

The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

The scientific argument [...] is that the attribution of agency to the natural world was a mistake, although a useful one in an evolutionary sense. [...] [T]o the contrary, [...] it was the notion of nature as a passive, ultimately inert mechanism that was the mistake, and perhaps the biggest one that humans ever made.

What Seligman and his colleagues proposed was that when people are looking for causes for failure, they display a variety of predispositions to accept one type of cause or another, quite apart from what the actual cause of the failure might be. There are three key dimensions to these predispositions, based on whether we view causes as being global or specific, chronic or transient, personal or universal.

cognitive habits of overattributing design and agency to natural phenomena

Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.

I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.

Politicians do not find any attractions in a view which does not lend itself to party declamation, and ordinary mortals prefer views which attribute misfortune to the machinations of their enemies.

It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person's true character.

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

It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.

Alexander von Humboldt, yet another friend, may have had Agassiz at least partly in mind when he observed that there are three stages in scientific discovery7: first, people deny that it is true; then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

You could pick out what felt surprising in a book or poem and then save it, as long as you also wrote down the name of the person who wrote it first

At that moment, as I looked this man in the eye, I was reminded of Hanlon's razor, a philosophical notion that states one should never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. It occurred to me just then that, conversely, one ought never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by malice.

What it accordingly amounted to for him was that he had to take full in the face a fresh attribution of ignorance. He had grown used by this time to reminders, especially from his own lips, of what he didn't know; but he had borne them because in the first place they were private and because in the second they practically conveyed a tribute.

Books've got to have a name on 'em so's everyone knows who's guilty.

Whenever I come out with a hit record, they'll say, 'Ah, that's because of R. Kelly. Oh, it's because of Ashanti. Oh, he's lucky.'

We were keeping a tally of who is to blame and how much. Shawn was at the top and Sarah wasn't far behind.

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.