Robert Kern wrote: > Fair enough. The only time I've seen it in dead-tree print was in Heinlein's > _Time Enough For > Love_, unattributed to anyone else.
if that's true, it would seem that it predates the Hanlon reference by a couple of years: http://www.statusq.org/archives/2001/12/04 on the other hand, Google tells me that "Time Enough For Love" con- tains a couple of other famous stupidity quotes, including: "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" do you still have a copy of the book? (preferrably a version printed before 1980...) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list