I like this
From the comments:
[D]efined by the cousins over the water as the
Napolean-Clarke Law - “Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice”
Its origin lies in the elegant splicing of Napoleon’s…
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
…and Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law…
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Expect to see it used here to the point of dispiriting cliche.
Posted on February 24th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
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That just could be the Safety Elephant’s motto?
No apostrophe in its.
Incidentally I often use the Clarke quote in connection with chess: what chessplayers do, even club players like myself, appears utterly incomprehensible to most people and thus like magic.
Cack. I have a real mental block with it’s/its. Cheers for the heads up. Fixed.
I prefer the Arendt-Clarke-Napoleon rule, particularly with respect to New Labour and Westlife:
“Any suffficiently advanced banality is evil”.