From ragnarok@pobox.com Wed Oct 02 14:46:01 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_4); 2 Oct 2002 21:45:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 9900 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2002 21:45:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Oct 2002 21:45:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.250) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2002 21:46:00 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.29] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id A918B0600030; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 17:46:00 -0400 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: The kind of publicity we have now Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:45:59 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-reply-to: <3D9B356D.5050509@bilkent.edu.tr> Importance: Normal X-Declude-Sender: raganok@intrex.net [209.42.200.29] X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" Reply-To: X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=48763382 X-Yahoo-Profile: kreig_daniyl >>>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. >> >I heard it from an ex-head of the CIA, though I can't remember his name, >or whether it was original. The idea is old. The "Hanlon's Razor" name for that specific formulation of it is of course a parallel to Occam's Razor. Heinlein, who it has been suggested was Hanlon, used the idea in several of his books, though AFAIK he never used the standard phrasing.