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Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 18:15:53 UTC 2008


On 02/03/2008, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>  > On 01/03/2008, Padraig <padraigrorry at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> > And "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by
>  >> > ignorance".
>  >>
>  >> I didn't think there was a bigger dolt than Karl in this ML, but you've
>  >> just proved me wrong.
>  >
>  > That's a Napoleon quote. Whether or not Napoleon is a dolt I won't
>  > argue, but I'll testify that Derek most certainly is not.
>
>
> Thanks.  Actually, the best I could figure is that with that wording, it
>  might be an Oscar Wilde quote.  Of course, it's been requoted by
>  everybody... The quote as ascribed to Napoleon says "incompetence" rather
>  than "ignorance" - though of course it's translated from French - which was
>  just a little more harsh than I think fair.

According to Wikipedia, it is a misattribution:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

I should have checked that first.

Dotan Cohen

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