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

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

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!
> 
> Regards, K.

I thought the original was "Never ascribe to conspiracy what can 
adequately be explained by stupidity" variously attributed to Niccolo 
Machiavelli and Napoleon Bonaparte

And then there is the British version, from Sir Bernard Ingham, "cock-up 
before conspiracy". Or the full quote "Many journalists have fallen for 
the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would 
produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory."

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Sydney Australia
brd at iimetro.com.au