That feeling when

[james_davis_nicoll]

You realize the most downloaded image related to you on FB is the one that credits your quotation to the late Terry Pratchett.

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[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

Ooooh... My condolences and mazal tov?

I mean, I suppose if you must be misattributed, it's great that they think what you said came from Sir Terry. But.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Ninja'd my comment! I guess great minds think alike.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Well, it's a _quality_ misattribution, at least. It's not like they credited your quotation to Pauly Shore or something.

[jayblanc.livejournal.com]

"There's no such thing as stealth in space."
- Oscar Wilde

[nelc.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that was Abraham Lincoln.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

No, that was this one:

"Most internet quotations are fabricated." -- A. Lincoln

[jiawen]

The problem with quotations on the internet is that the internet is about as clearly sourced as a very unclearly sourced thing indeed. It doesn't just assign quotes incorrectly; on occasion, the internet has pursued witticisms down alleyways to beat them unconscious and randomly assign them to other people.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Good one!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You forgot to credit that. It's by Ambrose Bierce.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

Of Bridge over Troubled Waters fame. Or was that Hootie and the Codpiece?

[(Anonymous)]

The Twitter manifestation of the phenomenon's even got its own name - Attribution Decay, coined by William Gibson (presumably as he's credited with an awful lot of internet aphorisms due to it).