John Cowan wrote:
I heard it from an ex-head of the CIA, though I can't remember his name, or whether it was original.Lionel Vidal scripsit:I like the sig though, which seems appropriate: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlon's Razor (Who is/was this Hanlon?)Almost certainly a modification of Robert Heinlein, the sf author, through oral tradition.