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|''"This quote is very memorable."'' | |''"This quote is very memorable."'' | ||
− | |This is likely not the case; this quote itself is very forgettable, being very short, and containing no insight on anything meaningful. However, the irony is that this simple quote stating | + | |This is likely not the case; this quote itself is very forgettable, being very short, and containing no insight on anything meaningful. However, the irony is that this simple quote stating it’s memorableness may be enough to get it stuck in your head, making it a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. This quote could actually be useful if you were preparing a presentation on how to give presentations, and wanted to illustrate the misuse of quotes. |
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|''"I wrote this book, and the person quoting me here is taking credit for it."'' | |''"I wrote this book, and the person quoting me here is taking credit for it."'' | ||
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|''"Since there's no ending quote mark, everything after this is part of my quote. —Randall Munroe | |''"Since there's no ending quote mark, everything after this is part of my quote. —Randall Munroe | ||
− | |First | + | |First off." Now that we have that out of the way, this quote appears in the title text. Randall Munroe is saying that because there's no ending quotation mark, the rest of the book this quote is in is part of Randall's quote, including, weirdly, the piece of text, after what should be the quote, specifying that Randall has also said his name. |
− | This is roughly consistent with the formatting required to perform SQL injection referenced in [[327: Exploits of a Mom | + | This is roughly consistent with the formatting required to perform SQL injection referenced in [[327]]: Exploits of a Mom. Because it doesn’t have any punctuation before the first “, it wouldn’t actually perform an injection attack, instead causing an entire query to be part of a single string. |
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