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> No one knows who said "never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence"...

It is said to be Napoléon Bonaparte.

> ...but it is a powerful idea.

Yes anyway, this is what matters and this is "true".

"They have a saying in Chicago Mr. Bond "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." Auric Goldfinger to James Bond in Ian Fleming's "Goldfinger"

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

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