Works
- Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong!, edited by Arthur Bloch, 1980
In Thinking Tools
Known for
The name attached to the adage "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity," which appeared under the title Hanlon's razor in Arthur Bloch's 1980 collection.
Caveat: Who Hanlon was is uncertain, and the thought is older: Robert A. Heinlein's story Logic of Empire (1941) has a character say it in other words.