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

[Kim Holburn]

On 2007/Oct/04, at 1:32 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:

> 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.

A take off of the famous Arthur C. Clarke quote, nice though:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
     Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third  
law)

>
>
> cheers
> rickw
>
>
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