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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.


Robert J. Hanlon

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Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ANONYMOUS Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
UNKNOWN Hanlon's Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupid...
ANON. Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
SPIDER ROBINSON Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
UNKNOWN You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never put down to evil intent what can equally well be explained by stupidity.
UNKNOWN The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, ther...
WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI Never put down to evil intent what can equally well be explained by thoughtlessness.
HERSCHEL M ROTHMAN Love can never be fully explained.
P. J. O'ROURKE Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A ...
RICHARD DAWKINS At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great mo...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Love is just love, it can never be explained.
SWEDISH PROVERB I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be...
MARTIN CHEMNITZ The share price can only be explained by takeover speculation.
ALEXANDER GROSCHKE Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Not everything we experience can be explained by logic or science.
LINDA WESTPHAL From bar mitzvah on, [S J Perelman] had dreamed of being a Jewish Robert Louis Stevenson.
ISRAEL SHENKER The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to car...
ALAN TURING I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
KARA WALKER I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
LINUS PAULING I noticed money market rates soar, but that can be explained by month-end demand for cash.
HUGO MORALES It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stol...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Robert Richards brought all the supplies and explained everything to the kids. He was very jazzed ab...
CINDY CARDER I would expect the next chapter in this story to be the abandonment of the deal by J&J. For J&J I th...
ELI KAMMERMAN Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely e...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely e...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
GANDHI The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
MAHATMA GANDHI They were being nickel-and-dimed by J&J. They had to get out of that loop.
JAN WALD The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers a...
JAMES HUTTON You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
SCOTT ADAMS You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public
SCOTT ADAMS Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely e...
MARTIN LUTHER KING That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
NEIL GAIMAN Those larger gains can be explained by the charter school model of a focused learning community.
GARY MIRON The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Mahatma Gandhi.
MAHATMA GANDHI but she never asked because something so wonderful should never be explained
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT These arrests have taken place under the present structures of laws, which proves that these laws ca...
AMEER ALI This stabilization in overall coverage rate can be explained by increases in government coverage tha...
CHARLES NELSON Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.
ITALIAN PROVERB We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that it may become probable by supernatura...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Malice can be spotted more easily in eyebrows than in opinions
CHRISTOPHER MOLINEUX Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
JOSEPH ADDISON There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupi...
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupi...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE What can be explained is not poetry.
W.B. YEATS That could not be explained by anything other than plain, old-fashioned sex discrimination,
KIM GANDY Without forgiveness and love, you will live with resentment, bitterness, malice and strife which res...
KEMI SOGUNLE Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
RéMY DE GOURMONT How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they c...
SORIN CERIN Eighty dollars is a 'wow' number ? I don't think there's any way J&J can rationally compete with tha...
DAVID HEUPEL No words can adequately convey the sadness felt by all Americans over this act of unmitigated evil.
BOB DOLE Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
FRANTZ FANON My take is that J&J would still like to do the deal but that Guidant is unwilling to negotiate the p...
PATRICK KASER Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,/ Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun.
JOHN BETJEMAN Never underestimate human stupidity.
PITTACUS LORE I don't see where this deal can be salvaged, ... I don't think J&J wants to risk its own reputation ...
ROBERT GOLD It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can b...
ALLAN REX SANDAGE We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point e...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We can essentially say that this organism, which some people thought could never be beaten, can now ...
DANIEL HASSETT Never confuse honor with stupidity!
R.A. SALVATORE Michael J. Fox was my idol. I always wanted to be Michael J. Fox.
DAVE ANNABLE Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pac...
BUDDHA Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care ...
ADAM All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.
J. ROBERT LENNON A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
JEAN RACINE I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
EVAN PARKER Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.
PAULO COELHO Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
ALDOUS HUXLEY That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.
P.C. HODGELL Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe i...
THICH NHAT HANH The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels h...
BERTRAND RUSSELL But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a com...
ERWIN ROMMEL Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special c...
EMILE DURKHEIM I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH They should reconsider and reexamine what they are doing, ... They should not be misled again into b...
SADDAM HUSSEIN Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and h...
J. ISHAM We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our em...
MILAN KUNDERA We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our em...
MILAN KUNDERA But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be ti...
ARISTOTLE What's happened can be explained by the higher cost of crude oil, the difficulties in building new r...
BOB SLAUGHTER Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT HEINLEIN All the swill from aircraft arriving from Nigeria shall be adequately incinerated and the aircraft a...
JOSEPH MUSAA I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe.
LOUIS FARRAKHAN Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowl...
JOHANN GEORG VON ZIMMERMANN I'll always advocate for women for any worthy cause, but a woman who doesn't reciprocate the honour ...
IFEOLUWA EGBETADE Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and ne...
EDWARD BACH A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
ANSEL ADAMS If J&J is not willing to up their bid, I think Guidant will be going to Boston Scientific.
DEBBIE WANG They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
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ROBERT J. ALLISON One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thank...
J. ROBERT MOSKIN That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch...
ROBERT J. SAWYER If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least f...
ROBERT J. SAWYER To be a success, you will have people walk out on you, walk over you, and walk away from you. If the...
ROBERT J. BRAATHE We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were ...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.
ROBERT J. MORRISSETTE Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At wh...
J. ROBERT MOSKIN The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scient...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for th...
ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is al...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot o...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Raising property taxes in Alabama is never going to happen. The people are never going to vote for t...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and...
ROBERT J. SAWYER We were looking at ourselves as a store rather than a brand. When you do that, you draw thick, heavy...
ROBERT J. FISHER The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of discipl...
ROBERT J. SAWYER All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.
J. ROBERT LENNON In order to get people to love you, you've got to get some people to hate you
ROBERT J. BRAATHE I have no intentions of resigning.
ROBERT J. BENTLEY George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure beca...
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