Attribution Quotes

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

  Avinash Kaushik

  Girlfriend, Technology, Wife

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Influence

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• 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.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Facts, Said, Certain

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• False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

  Winston Smith

  Discourse, Bane

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• 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.

  Judith Curry

  Mind, Addresses, Able

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• 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.

  Rick Falkvinge

  Fighting, Artist, Culture

  "'Avast ye scurvy file sharers!': Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge". Wikinews interview, en.wikinews.org. June 20, 2006.

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

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Self, Attributes

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• 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.

  James Frey

  Moving, Character, Care

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• 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.

  Thomas Merton

  Pride, Self, Glory

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• In the Orient the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms, and absolutely beyond any such concept as of a merciful or wrathful personality, chooser of one people over another, comforter of folk who pray, and destroyer of those who do not. Such anthropomorphic attributions of human sentiments and thoughts to a mystery beyond thought is-from the point of view of Indian thought-a style of religion for children.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Views, Names

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.53, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• 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.

  Clayton Christensen

  Stupid, Believe, Dedication

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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

  Judith Curry

  Climate, Purpose, Arguing

  "The 50-50 argument". judithcurry.com. August 24, 2014.

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• 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.

  Jaron Lanier

  Intelligent, Order, People

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.36, Vintage

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• 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?

  George Steiner

  Morning, Men, Thinking

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.191, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• [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).

  John Wansbrough

  Biblical, Men, Islam

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• 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.

  Jonathan Karl

  Regret, Should Have, Email

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• 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.

  Lloyd Grove

  Past, Blood, Drawing

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• 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.

  John Searle

  Umpires, Car, Understanding

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

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• 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.

  John Searle

  Philosophical, Cutting, Ice

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". Book by John Searle, 1980.

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Omnipotence, Monsters

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.167, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Esther Dyson

  Integrity, Believe, Thinking

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• 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.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Education, Organization, Training

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• 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!

  John Bartlett

  Mother, Clever, Nice

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

  Stanley Baldwin

  Political, Complaining, Politics

  In Harold Nicolson Diary (1967) 21 July 1943

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