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On 02/03/2008, Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> > On 01/03/2008, Padraig <padraigrorry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > And "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by
> >> > ignorance".
> >>
> >> I didn't think there was a bigger dolt than Karl in this ML, but you've
> >> just proved me wrong.
> >
> > That's a Napoleon quote. Whether or not Napoleon is a dolt I won't
> > argue, but I'll testify that Derek most certainly is not.
>
>
> Thanks. Actually, the best I could figure is that with that wording, it
> might be an Oscar Wilde quote. Of course, it's been requoted by
> everybody... The quote as ascribed to Napoleon says "incompetence" rather
> than "ignorance" - though of course it's translated from French - which was
> just a little more harsh than I think fair.
According to Wikipedia, it is a misattribution:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
I should have checked that first.
Dotan Cohen
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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