Der Quote Investigator untersucht im aktuellen Blogpost das Neil Gaiman zugeschriebene Zitat “Google Can Bring You Back 100,000 Answers. A Librarian Can Bring You Back the Right One“:
“One of the known mechanisms for the creation of misquotations occurs via twitter. A celebrity retweets an existing quotation, and it is immediately and incorrectly attributed to him or her. However, in this case, Gaiman constructed the saying before it appeared on twitter.
In conclusion, Neil Gaiman did deliver the line about finding information during an interview in April 2010. QI believes that he coined it.”