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** As his Wikiquote page shows, he probably didn't say "Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity.".
** Another quote attributed to Einstein is: "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." While he did say somthing similar, [http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/16/future-weapons he used "rocks" instead of "sticks and stones".] But similar statements using "spears" and "bows and arrows" and attributed to other people also exist
** [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05004-4 Einstein never said] "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results", either. That's a line from ''[[Sudden Death (1984 novel)|Sudden Death]]'', by Rita Mae Brown.
* [[Bill Gates]] did not say, "Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one," it was Charles J. Sykes.
** Nor did Gates ever say "640KB is all the memory you'll ever need" or any variation of that. Recent info has suggested that it was actually an IBM executive that originated the quote, and what he really said was more along the lines of "We believe that 640KB will meet the current needs of our customers." Regardless of whether it was Gates or someone at IBM, they most certainly did ''not'' intend to say that "No-one will ever require more than 640KB of memory," which is what the quote tends to be twisted into meaning.
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