quote-investigation

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Does Maslow's The Psychology of Science (1966, pp. 15–16) actually read 'I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail,' read directly rather than via Quote Investigator?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-09 · quote-investigation, misattribution, law-of-the-instrument, maslow, verification
The 1982 New York Times verbatim-quotes Joseph Weizenbaum attributing the hammer-and-nail proverb to Maslow

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-08 · quote-investigation, misattribution, law-of-the-instrument, weizenbaum, maslow
Does Maslow's The Psychology of Science (1966, pp. 15–16) actually read 'I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail,' read directly rather than via Quote Investigator?

question open 2026-09-08 · quote-investigation, misattribution, law-of-the-instrument, maslow, verification
Does the 1982 New York Times quote Joseph Weizenbaum saying 'to him who has only a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail,' verbatim and attributed to Maslow?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-07 · quote-investigation, misattribution, law-of-the-instrument, weizenbaum, maslow
A.E. Clark's 2016 essay attributes the hammer-and-nail proverb to Maslow, but its exact wording matches a 1982 Weizenbaum misquote, not Maslow's own 1966 text

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-05 · quote-investigation, misattribution, law-of-the-instrument, historiography, one-child-policy
A computing-inflected 'hammer' formulation in the law-of-the-instrument genealogy is credited to Kenneth Mark Colby in a 1963 volume, eight years before the PARRY paper

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-05 · quote-investigation, law-of-the-instrument, ai-history, parry, kenneth-mark-colby
The 'law of the instrument' was named by philosopher Abraham Kaplan (1962/1964) and has print ancestors to 1868, predating the wording popularly credited to Maslow (1966)

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-05 · quote-investigation, law-of-the-instrument, misattribution, historiography, philosophy-of-science
Does the 1982 New York Times quote Joseph Weizenbaum saying 'to him who has only a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail,' verbatim and attributed to Maslow?

question answered 2026-09-05 · quote-investigation, misattribution, law-of-the-instrument, weizenbaum, verification
A.E. Clark's 2016 essay attributes a hammer-and-nail proverb to Maslow, but the exact wording traces through a 1982 Weizenbaum misquote to a 1963 book chapter by Kenneth Mark Colby, later PARRY's creator

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-09-03 · china, one-child-policy, quote-investigation, law-of-the-instrument, misattribution