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Hanlon's razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hanlon's Razor is an eponymous adage which reads: According to Joseph Bigler, the quotation first came from Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania as a submission for a book compilation of variou...
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Hanlon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hanlon is a surname, and may refer to • Jim Hanlon American-born lawyer • Alfred Hanlon, British-born acrobat (see Hanlon-Lees) • Alfred Charles Hanlon, New Zealand lawyer • Darren Hanlon, Australian...
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A news blog for those who miss that liberal media we've heard so much about. ... By Hanlon, on December 24th, 2009 at 10:39 AM ... Friends of the Razor...
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By Hanlon, on September 7th, 2009 at 10:47 AM ... This is actually a case where the ol’ Razor is irrelevant. Either she’s stupid or malicious, and no matter which she shouldn’t be allowed to practice law any more.
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Hanlon's Razor /prov./ A corollary of Finagle's Law, similar to Occam's Razor, that reads "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." The derivation of the Hanlon eponym is not definitely known, but a very similar remark ("You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply...
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This statement has often been referred to as Hanlon's Razor, though the author himself has remained relatively unknown, and some theories arose that "Hanlon" might have been a corruption of "Heinlein".
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I told you all we had big plans, so here we go: Hanlon’s Razor now has its own domain! Again. Please move yer bookmarks and whatnot to… ... ; Hanlon's Razor exists for one simple reason: to combat the lies, expose the stupidity, and fix all that's broken in our current "marketplace of ideas". Okay...
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Here in the Razor Arena, we love poetic justice, and watching Lieberman buried in the coffin he built in the grave he dug would certainly ... Hanlon's Razor exists for one simple reason: to combat the lies, expose the stupidity, and fix all that's broken in our current "marketplace of ideas". Okay, that's three reasons.
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A corollary of Finagle's Law, similar to Occam's Razor, that reads “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” Quoted here because it seems to be a particular favorite of hackers, often showing up in sig blocks, fortune cookie files and the login banners of BBS systems...
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But faulty forecasts, here in Ireland anyway, are never, ever due to Murphy's Law or human error. Neither does Hanlon's Razor hold the key. —Brendan McWilliams, "What to blame when things go wrong," The Irish Times, October 4, 2001...
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