Grey's Law "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
OT: Thought for the day
Sep 04, 2011
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Too late. I've already had a thought today. Can I use this one tomorrow?
"Johnny was a chemist's son but Johnny is no more. What Johnny thought was H2O was H2SO4."
Arrgh- accidentally did a direct reply- first time that has happened in several days.
I that law. Nice adaptation of Asimov's (?) law about any sufficently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic.
No biggie. I replied both places. too.
AND the missive about never attributing to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Works on SO many levels.
Except it was Arthur C Clarke
Hey, I'm getting old. And I put a question mark after the attribution.
How about.....
Heinlein's Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't completely rule out malice.
He wrote science-fiction...that means he was stateless
AND YOUR HOME REPAIR QUESTIOIN IS? NOTE THE NAME OF THISE NG IS NOT "ot" LAZY ASS!
Just like women are actors not actresses, SF writers belong to the genre, not the country
It's not the most appropriate group, but if you asked politely, I bet someone could show you how to fix that cap lock key on your keyboard
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