That Wasn’t Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born

“When I started off, it was mysterious exactly where these misquotations were coming from, and it was interesting that sometimes you could find these clues that pointed to how they may have originated,” said Mr. O’Toole, an alias for Gregory F. Sullivan, a former teacher and researcher in the Johns Hopkins computer science department who now spends his time writing.

From That Wasn’t Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born – The New York Times