Since when was quoting a classic aphorism a source of "guilt"?
Since he's a moderately influential person participating in an interview where he knows his statements will be reprinted as his own words.
Is this common? If so, then perhaps I'm wrong for assigning blame to DHH. Can you point me to some other interviews where the interviewee uses a well-known quote that's not his without some form of attribution?
Usually when people quote Greenspun's 10th Rule they cite it as such.
You quote Plato, Aristotle, Ovid, and other Grecoroman philosophers all the time, and you don't even know it. Not to mention Shakespeare, Aesop, and even modern day people. (Inspiration vs perspiration, for example.) Many "sayings" have origins with a specific person who said or wrote it, in a documented fashion, even though they've slipped into common culture. Even new words, like "OK" and "bloodstained."
If people really want to bitch about David that much, there are much, much better grounds they can find than this.
Since he's a moderately influential person participating in an interview where he knows his statements will be reprinted as his own words.
Is this common? If so, then perhaps I'm wrong for assigning blame to DHH. Can you point me to some other interviews where the interviewee uses a well-known quote that's not his without some form of attribution?
Usually when people quote Greenspun's 10th Rule they cite it as such.