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Who is it that first said that "insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result”?

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by slb-slb on Nov 8, 2007 at 9:47 am Permalink

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It's most often attributed to Albert Einstein, sometimes to Benjamin Franklin, but I have never seen a specific citation for either one, which makes me suspect it was neither.

It doesn't sound like Franklin to me. (Is "over and over" a phrase that was used in the 18th century? It sounds more modern than that -- I think Franklin would more likely have said "repeatedly.")

I suspect this one really should be attributed to the prolific "Anonymous."
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