GIGO (1961)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

> OED has "GIGO" = "garbage in, garbage out" from 1964, and Barry Popik
> previously supplied a cite from the Oct. 24, 1963 _N.Y. Herald Tribune_.

The Yale Dictionary of Quotations has a 1959 citation in its database.

Fred Shapiro


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred R. Shapiro                             Editor
Associate Librarian for Collections and     YALE DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS
  Access and Lecturer in Legal Research     Yale University Press,
Yale Law School                             forthcoming
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               http://quotationdictionary.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------