[LINK] Apple's Not 'Bricking' Hacked IPhones for Revenge

[Rick Welykochy]

Karl Auer wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:32 +0200, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> Interesting article.  Who was it who said that the cause of many  
>> things in this world is not deliberate actions but incompetence.
> 
> I believe the aphorism was something like a specialised Ockham's Razor:
> 
> "Never ascribe to malice what can be more simply explained by
> incompetence.". Dunno who said it though. Ooh - maybe it was me!

I found a couple of similar quotes, the first being unattributed.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
      -- PJ Plauger

The second seems modeled on the observation about advanced technology
and magic.


cheers
rickw



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