[OT] Hanlon's Razor (Was: Optimize away immediately-called delegate literals?)
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Mon Mar 12 10:58:48 PDT 2012
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:03:39AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message
> news:mailman.455.1331448575.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> >
> > Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by
> > incompetence. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
>
> Pardon me veering offtopic at one of your taglines yet again, but I
> have to say, this is one that I've believed very strongly in for
> years. It's practically a mantra of mine, a big part of my own
> personal philosophy. I've never heard it attributed to Napoleon,
> though. I always knew it as "Hanlon's Razor", somewhat of a corollary
> to Occam's Razor.
[...]
I guess my sources aren't that reliable. I just copy-n-pasted that quote
from somebody else's sig. :-)
T
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them. -- George Orwell
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