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#210017 - 10/20/10 09:47 PM Re: Propositions almost certainly true [Re: dweste]
RayW Offline
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Never do a bad job good.

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#210021 - 10/20/10 10:41 PM Re: Propositions almost certainly true [Re: RayW]
dweste Offline
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Originally Posted By: RayW
Never do a bad job good.


Unless it is the right thing to do,then do a good bad job.

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#210034 - 10/21/10 12:26 AM Re: Propositions almost certainly true [Re: dweste]
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"Sometimes bad is bad"

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#210081 - 10/21/10 09:45 PM Re: Propositions almost certainly true [Re: dweste]
RayW Offline
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Originally Posted By: dweste
Originally Posted By: RayW
Never do a bad job good.


Unless it is the right thing to do,then do a good bad job.


Where i work one of the lines my co-workers tell me is never do a bad job good because you will always wind up with the bad jobs. I have always had the problem of doing the the bad jobs good but that also keeps me employed.

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#210117 - 10/22/10 03:49 PM Re: Propositions almost certainly true [Re: dweste]
Hanscom Offline
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The two most prevalent elements in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.

Albert Einstein

And on that note:

Never attribute to malice anything more easily explained by stupidity.

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#210130 - 10/22/10 09:00 PM Re: Propositions almost certainly true [Re: Hanscom]
dweste Offline
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Originally Posted By: Hanscom
Never attribute to malice anything more easily explained by stupidity.


"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Robert J. Hanlon, Murphy's Law book two: More reasons why things go wrong! (1980) ISBN 0843106743 by Arthur Bloch page 52.

Wikipedia:

According to Joseph Bigler, the quotation first came from Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as a submission for a book compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in 1980 entitled Murphy's Law Book Two, More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong.[1] The name was inspired by Occam's razor.[2]

A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's 1941 short story "Logic of Empire" ("You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity"); this was noticed in 1996 (five years before Bigler identified the Robert J. Hanlon citation) and first referenced in version 4.0.0 of the Jargon File,[3] with speculation that Hanlon's Razor might be a corruption of "Heinlein's Razor". "Heinlein's Razor" has since been defined as variations on Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.[4] Yet another similar epigram ("Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence") has been widely attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte.[5] Another similar quote appears in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774): "...misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent."



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