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agluszakyesterday at 7:59 PM2 repliesview on HN

What do you mean by "made-up quote"? The author didn't make it up, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_journey_of_a_thousand_miles_...

This level of nit-picking is disheartening...


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captn3m0yesterday at 10:26 PM

I think they meant:

> "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein

Which is listed at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Misattributed

falcor84yesterday at 10:28 PM

The reference is most likely to:

> "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

Which TFA (and others) misattribute to Einstein