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IntLibber wrote:
MSimon wrote: You should separate the incapable from the unwilling. And since one can never be sure I give people the benefit of the doubt. For at least 50 nanoseconds. Sometimes longer.

But I will say this: I have met stupid people who were not malicious. I have never observed the reverse.
Jim Hansen
Michael Mann
the rest of the Hockey Team

smart and malicious, to a man.
Not very smart because they both have overplayed their hands. What the Brits refer to as "too smart by half."
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.

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MSimon wrote:
IntLibber wrote:
MSimon wrote:But I will say this: I have met stupid people who were not malicious. I have never observed the reverse.
Jim Hansen
Michael Mann
the rest of the Hockey Team

smart and malicious, to a man.
Not very smart because they both have overplayed their hands. What the Brits refer to as "too smart by half."
"So stupid only an academic could believe it."
Vae Victis

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Post by MSimon »

djolds1 wrote:"So stupid only an academic could believe it."
The way I heard it was:

That the statement was so absurd that only an academic could believe it.

Sometimes attributed to George Orwell.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.

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