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- From: Rick.Moen@f207.n914.z8.rbbs-net.ORG (Rick Moen)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Measurement & precisio
- Message-ID: <722073998.2@wyrm.rbbs-net.ORG>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:19:46 GMT
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- > From: gascan@dcst16.dc (Bill Gascoyne)
- > Message-ID: <1992Nov10.172048.17508@lsil.com>
-
- > No, I meant Hanlon. If you can prove that Heinlein said this and give
- > a reference I'll take his word for it. However, I have heard this
- > quote from at least two different sources, both with the same
- > attribution.
- >
- > No, I don't know who Hanlon was (just as I don't know who Murphy was,
- > and don't care). I do, however, know who Heinlein was.
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- The MIT Jargon File calls this Hanlon's Law, too, stating that it's
- derivation is unknown, but adding that a similar epigram was written by
- William James.
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- Cheers,
- Rick M.
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