11 Sep
2022
11 Sep
'22
5:24 a.m.
On Saturday, 10 September 2022 at 11:12:01 -0600, The UNIX Heritage Society wrote:
On 9/10/22 4:32 AM, David Arnold wrote:
This is pretty much Hanlon's razor
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor)
never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity
Does anybody know if the Robert Hanlon to which the saying was
attributed was the Bob Hanlon that I knew at Tandem?
Greg
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I imagine it was simply a mistake.
I naively assumed it was an off-by-one / fat-finger / typo intending to
type seventeen.
A slightly modified, nicer, form of the common quote: Never attribute
to malice that which is adequately explained by mistake.