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Tomboy is wrong wrong wrong.

Tomboy is wrong wrong wrong.

Posted Aug 18, 2006 22:05 UTC (Fri) by kornak (guest, #17589)
In reply to: Tomboy is wrong wrong wrong. by louie
Parent article: Take notes with Tomboy (Linux.com)

>> "Never ascribe to evil what you can ascribe to laziness."

That was a brilliant comment. Can I use it? I will save it in my note taker
under the "quotations" section:

http://notemeister.sourceforge.net/


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Tomboy is wrong wrong wrong.

Posted Aug 18, 2006 22:59 UTC (Fri) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link]

Sure. I'm sure it has been said before, though probably not in this context :)

Tomboy is wrong wrong wrong.

Posted Aug 19, 2006 10:59 UTC (Sat) by oseemann (subscriber, #6687) [Link]

The original quote would probably be
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

Tomboy is wrong wrong wrong.

Posted Aug 19, 2006 12:32 UTC (Sat) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link]

Oh, of course; I meant that I'm sure that laziness had been used as the closing clause before.

Tomboy is wrong wrong wrong.

Posted Aug 19, 2006 21:05 UTC (Sat) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688) [Link]

I don't think he really wanted to use your quote. It was the sarcastic setup to plug his notetaking app. :-)

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