Attribution is power.

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

— Avinash Kaushik

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…

— Thomas Merton

The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said…

— Gary Saul Morson

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

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…

— John Bartlett

False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

— Winston Smith

“There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described…

— Rick Falkvinge

“The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of…

— George Steiner

“Can you think of a better way than slavishly copying and removing attribution to disrespect an author”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

“The doer is someone else, yet to say, 'I am doing it,' is a false attribution; due to which one earns the next life.…

— Dada Bhagwan

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…

— Jonathan Karl

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…

— Lloyd Grove

Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change…

— Judith Curry