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{{A|devil|{{image|Cipolla-matrix|png|Stupidity mapped, yesterday.}}}}{{quote|“Do not attribute to ''malice'' things that can just as well be explained by ''stupidity''.” | {{A|devil|{{image|Cipolla-matrix|png|Stupidity mapped, yesterday.}}}}{{quote|“Do not attribute to ''malice'' things that can just as well be explained by ''stupidity''.” | ||
:—''[[Hanlon’s razor]]''}} | :—''[[Hanlon’s razor]]''}} | ||
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I don’t think it’s just a plain stupidity. There are dignified stupidities, and there are heroic stupidities and there’s such a thing as ''stupid'' stupidities — and that would be a stupid stupidity. | |||
:—Werner Herzog, ''The White Diamond'', 2004 | |||
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Italian economic historian and raconteur 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 we have learned little in half a century. This probably tells you what you need to know. | Italian economic historian and raconteur 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 we have learned little in half a century. This probably tells you what you need to know. | ||