Oh, OK, almost said :-) (But he should have!) What he actually said was something like
"We can design a system that is proof against accident and stupidity, but not one that is proof against deliberate malice." But I prefer my version TBH. On 31 March 2014 10:00, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31 March 2014 04:27, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 1:11 AM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: >> >> >> Back in 2007 the United Nations issued a report on climate change, it >>>> said that by 2100 things would be between 2 and 4.5 degrees warmer than >>>> now, a rather large amount of uncertainty; but after spending millions of >>>> dollars and 7 years of hard work they just issued a new report, and their >>>> uncertainty has actually INCREASED. Now they say between 1.5 and 4.5. >>>> >>> >>> > Doesn't exactly comport with the theory that it's all an >>> environmentalist conspiracy, does it. >> >> >> I know of no such environmental conspiracy, it takes brains to be a >> successful conspirator. As Napoleon said "Never ascribe to malice that >> which is adequately explained by incompetence". >> > > Or as Arthur C Clarke said, > > "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
