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{{A|devil|[[File:Cipolla-matrix.png|thumb|center|Stupidity mapped, yesterday.]]}}{{quote|Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
{{A|devil|[[File:Cipolla-matrix.png|thumb|center|Stupidity mapped, yesterday.]]}}{{quote|“Never attribute ''malice'' to things that can just as well be explained by ''stupidity''.
:—Hanlon’s razor}}
:—''[[Hanlon’s razor]]''}}


Italian economic historian and raconteur {{author|Carlo Cipolla}} pinned down [[stupidity]] in his 1976 essay ''Le leggi fondamentali della stupidità umana'' — “the basic laws of human stupidity”. A worthy endeavour, but one from which the world appears not to have learned much in half a century. Which probably tells you everything you need to know.
Italian economic historian and raconteur {{author|Carlo Cipolla}} pinned down [[stupidity]] in his 1976 essay ''Le leggi fondamentali della stupidità umana'' — “the basic laws of human stupidity”. A worthy endeavour, but one from which the world appears not to have learned much in half a century. Which probably tells you everything you need to know.