"As Abraham Lincoln once said, Journalism is the first rough draft of history. Or possibly it was Thomas Edison who said that. I'm pretty sure somebody said it, because you often hear journalists quote it in an effort to explain how come they get everything wrong."
— Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
"Degrassi‘s little discrepancies in terms of how players got their jobs on the Ice Hounds... can be forgiven because these are things that the casual observer, one who does not have regular exposure or extensive knowledge of the junior hockey system, would overlook."
— Margann Laurissa, at thehockeywriters.com
"And I can tell you that someone who loves everything there is to love about mythology isn't necessarily interested in the differences between an allosaurus and a T Rex. The paleontologist isn't too keen on finding out every legend involving Athena, either, and neither is the junior Spiderman."
— The Asperkid's SECRET Book of Social Rules
What if Zelda was a girl?
— Another anonymous internet philosopher.
Cooper Lawrence: [Gamers] are seeing women as these objects of desire, as these hot bodies. They don't show women as being valued as anything other than their sexuality, and it's a man in this game deciding how many women he wants to be with.
Geoff Keighley: Yeah, that's completely incorrect; first of all, you can actually play as a man or a woman in the game. Cooper, have you ever played Mass Effect?
Cooper: No!
— Fox News article on Mass Effect 1
Kokichi: [...] But alas, that wasn’t the case...and now poor Tsumugi’s been cornered like how Kira was caught by L.
Tenko: T-Tsumugi? Is this true? Were you really the one who…?
Tsumugi: First of all... it was ‘Near’ who cornered Kira. L had already died at that point.
Kokichi: Gee, thanks for the spoilers, ‘Kira’.
Tenko: T-Tsumugi? Is this true? Were you really the one who…?
Tsumugi: First of all... it was ‘Near’ who cornered Kira. L had already died at that point.
Kokichi: Gee, thanks for the spoilers, ‘Kira’.
— Alternate V, Her Class Trial, Our Class Trial — Part 10
"You know how the news media gets things hilariously wrong whenever they talk about video games, science, or the Internet? Well, the same thing happens when they talk about translation too."
— Clyde "Tomato" Mandelin, describing the inspiration behind starting Legends of Localization
TOY STORY GOOD MOV-EH. BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, HE FLY LIKE IRD. WOODY, COWBOY MAN, WOOF WOOF LIKE DAW. THEY FIGHT DRAGON, BIG MONSTER. GREEN MAN, HE ANGRY, 'ULK SMASH. LIL' BOY, ANDY, HIM PLAY TOYS. MR. POTAY EAT POTAY CHIPS. TOY GO TO INFINITY AND BEYOND, YABBA DABBA DOH. TOY STORY FUN, ME LIKE TOYS. ME ANDY NOW, ME POTAY HEAD.
