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- From: gascan@dcst16.dc (Bill Gascoyne)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Measurement & Precision
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.172048.17508@lsil.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 17:20:48 GMT
- References: <1df8c0INNi5h@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article 1df8c0INNi5h@gap.caltech.edu, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov4.174337.15525@lsil.com>, gascan@dcst16.dc (Bill Gascoyne) writes:
- > >At this point, I would invoke Hanlon's Razor:
- > >
- > >"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
- >
- > I believe you meant Heinlein (Robert A.), not Hanlon.
- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
- >
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- No, I meant Hanlon. If you can prove that Heinlein said this and give a reference,
- I'll take his word for it. However, I have heard this quote from at least two
- different sources, both with the same attribution.
-
- No, I don't know who Hanlon was (just as I don't know who Murphy was, and don't care).
- I do, however, know who Heinlein was.
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- 1. Bill Gascoyne
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