Hanlon's razor corollary

Hanlon's razor, a corollary of Finagle's law, is an adage which reads:

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

Also worded as:

Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice.

Hanlon's Razor is a favorite of hackers and often shows up in sig blocks, fortune files, and the login banners of BBS systems and commercial networks.

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