Albert Einstein weighs in for Obama/Biden. His definition of insanity ...

[99th_Monkey]

Insanity: "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
~Albert Einstein


This would make a great Obama/Biden ad, don't cha think?

[BlooInBloo]

1. Like rolling a die?

:rofl:

:hide:

[99th_Monkey]

2. Huh?

have no idea what you mean, but glad you got a good laugh anyway.

[BlooInBloo]

3. Sort of an inside joke.

[99th_Monkey]

4. Like all inside your head? If you clued me in on this "inside Joke", would you have to kill me? ~nt

[BlooInBloo]

5. Nah. It's a math thing. Completely OT from what your post was actually about...

But still amusing for those who know (a) a little bit of math and (b) something else Einstein is famous for saying.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. Oh god, not that again!

[Poseidan]

6. actually

Einstein is referring to the scientific method of trial and error.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Actually that quote and its attribution are urban legends

Franklin? Einstein? Rita Mae Brown?

The only actual documented attribution is:


Rita Mae Brown: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown
Sourced
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Sudden Death, Bantam Books, New York, 1983, p. 68.
(Note: This same quote has also been variously attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and an old Chinese proverb)

[onager]

8. I've also seen it attributed to Georges Santayana

Possibly because he said something very similar:

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

From the Introduction to Life of Reason, Vol. 1, 1905

[Warren Stupidity]

9. That at least makes sense.

The insanity definition doesn't. First, repeated operations in many cases do produce different results. Ask anyone involved in software/hardware system testing, for example. Second, it *might* qualify as an example of Obsessive/Compulsive Behavior, but it is hardly a general definition of insanity.

[Sodan]

11. They will just point out that Einstein was a socialist!