While he may not have been the first to say it, Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005) is credited with the quotation: "The conventional wisdom is often wrong".
The band has come to be credited with everything from the revival of guitar-based rock in Britain to the resurgence of their native Manchester.
It has been credited with everything from democratising news to helping to overthrow dictators but it appears that the love affair with social media may be over.
It is worthy of note that Slade, who have been credited with everything from planting the seeds of punk to planting the seeds of Kiss to inspiring the film This Is Spinal Tap - were pulling up lame in the United States at the very same time the New York Dolls, credited with everything from inventing punk to inventing everything, were flopping as well.
Since its opening last year, not only has Hamilton sold $1bn worth of tickets, won a Pulitzer and 11 Tonys and become the most successful Broadway opening of all time, but Miranda has been credited with everything from reinventing musical theatre to revolutionising the way Americans think about their own history.
The success of Empire can be credited to everything from its use of hip-hop culture, the racial politics or addictive storylines; or maybe when you need a family tree to watch Game of Thrones and Mad Men feels as if it's been on since the 1960s, it is just fun to watch a woman dressed like a 90s Lil' Kim diss her husband's new girlfriend with an insult such as "boo-boo kitty".
Jack Dorsey is also the CEO of Twitter, a leading social network company that has been credited with everything from starting Middle Eastern revolutions to keeping up with the Kardashians.
Single moms, as a whole, have been credited with everything from street crime to alcoholism and depression.
But even Alan Turing, who has been credited with everything that computers do today, had doubts about whether machines had the intellectual capacities equal to a human mind.
But Boyd remains largely unknown to the general public, even though his ideas have been credited with inspiring everything from the new Army to just-in-time manufacturing.
It is easy to get caught up in the hype of artificial intelligence (AI), as the promise of this relatively new technology has been credited with saving everything from our health to our work life and even our planet.
