Nobody understands templates?

[Chris]

On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 19:18:28 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 10:27 -0800, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 06:19:38PM +0000, Chris wrote:
> […]
>> > True, true. The fact that the compiler can check for the 
>> > right types
>> > is great.
>> > 
>> > Btw, the quote you have in this post:
>> > 
>> > Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by
>> > incompetence. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
>> > 
>> > I'm surprised that Napoleon would say something like this. 
>> > Malice is
>> > often a characteristic of the incompetent. The only way to 
>> > get the
>> > better of their betters. :-)
>> 
>> I'm not sure if that attribution is accurate. Nick has pointed 
>> out to me
>> that he knows the same quote attributed to someone else, so 
>> this may be
>> a case of internet misattribution (I picked up that quote from 
>> somewhere
>> online, way back when -- no idea if the source was reliable, 
>> y'know,
>> being the internet and everything).
>
> I present you the following, which between then give a good 
> account of
> the whole situation. Sort of. Possibly.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
> https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Hanlon_s_razor.html
> http://blog.writch.com/2009/04/hanlons-razor-which-i-knew-as-heinleins-razor.html

This reminds me of Cipolla's laws of human stupidity. Put this 
into your search engine:

Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, Carlo M. Cipolla

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla

Enjoy!