Showing posts with label hanlon's razor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hanlon's razor. Show all posts

Friday, March 14, 2008

GENERAL STUFF: Hanlon's Razor (part 2)

Other related laws.

Clark's Third Law
  1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
  2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
  3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Prakinson's Law

...work expands to fill the time available

(And Floore's Law: expenditures rise at an exponential rate; salary at a geometrical one. IE: Your purchases grow faster than your salary.)

Gray's Law
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

GENERAL STUFF: Hanlon's Razor

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.


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