Of course I am not trying to be stupidly meticulous (quite often quotations are attributed to different people - and sometimes it isn't easy to tell who said what).

But I have always been fascinated with human stupidity (and I've written a book about it). It may help to place some comments in historical perspective.

> As someone once said, do not attribute to malice
> that which can be sufficiently attributed to stupidity.

That's known an "Hanlon's Razor" (Robert Heinlein, 1941)

It's reported that Napoleon Bonaparte (French spelling) said:

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.


Cheers

Giancarlo


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