Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations - 1: Garbage In Garbage Out
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sat Nov 11 13:24:30 UTC 2006
Because I did not want to get scooped by other quotation dictionaries
before my book came out, I have refrained from posting a fair number of
notable quotation-related antedatings on this list. (This fear on my part
was not just paranoia -- Ralph Keyes's recent book, The Quote Verifier,
drew heavily on postings I have made to ADS-L and Stumpers). Now,
happily, I can start to post this backlog of notable antedatings.
garbage in garbage out (OED 1964, Popik 1961)
1959 _Business Quarterly_ Winter 213 ff. (ABI/Inform) As one
consultant puts it, "Garbage in, Garbage
out."
Fred Shapiro
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Fred R. Shapiro Editor
Associate Librarian for Collections and YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS
Access and Lecturer in Legal Research Yale University Press
Yale Law School ISBN 0300107986
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu http://quotationdictionary.com
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