Grey's Law
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Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Occam's razor: Of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred.
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This law belongs with Murphy's Laws, where small assumptions, timing, and system complexity tend to turn into memorable failures.
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