On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:15:46AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:04:53AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > its appearance. I'd suggest applying Occam's razor: the simplest > > For those who don't know Occam's Razor, it's sometimes also called > Bob's Motto (Bob being the name of all Tech Support reps). "Never > attribute to malice what can be readily explained by stupidity."
The canonical wording is "Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity", although as the originator, William of Occam / Ockham, was a 12th century monk he probably used other words, maybe Latin ones. It's often expressed as "pick the simplest explanation that fits the facts". -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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