History Quotes / HanlonsRazor

-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''' on ''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'' for UsefulNotes/{{NES}}

->''"I don’t think [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]] could plan a bowl of cereal."''

-->--Comment by '''johnatan delacuso''' on [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vz3WYT8th0g this video]] about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kenneka_Jenkins Kenneka Jenkins]] case

-->-- Sir Bernard Ingham, Press Secretary to UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, in the Observer, March 17th 1985.

-->'''Kohler:''' [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}} Do you actually suspect Klink of disloyalty?]]\\

-->-- Sir Bernard Ingham, Press Secretary to UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher

->''"Unfortunately, in your sleep deprived state you accidentally manage to create a glitch that kills players when their avatars die! [...] Next thing you know, [[CallBack your tutorial NPC is nowhere to be found]] and players are dropping like Dorito-encrusted flies. Now, in this case any ''sane'' man would simply turn off the servers before anyone else got hurt. But because you've now been awake long enough to think that the government is run by Flubar, King of the MoleMen, the best idea that comes to your mind is to double, tripple and quadruple down. So you lock everyone into the game, tell them they'll die if they don't finish it and [[IMeantToDoThat try to make it look like this was all part of your "Master Plan"]], instead of an ever spiraling series of events that you've long since lost control of."''

-->-- '''A saying on knife usage'''[[note]]that embodies this trope when taken metaphorically[[/note]]

->''"Sometimes I think that Music/KanyeWest is less a musician than he is an ongoing study for unemployed anthropology majors. He's one of the biggest, most self-absorbed assholes on the planet, and yet people waste trillions of gigabytes of bandwidth to talk about what Kanye's assholishness [[SeeminglyProfoundFool MEANS]]."''

->''"I think the game has more to do with the star than the movie. I mean the star in the sky, the ''real'' Betelgeuse. It's a red supergiant that's going to explode one day... This particular star is always pulsating; it's so inconsistent that it's sometimes called the 9th brightest star in the sky, but usually the 10th. These fluctuations in inconsistencies are exactly what they were going for with [[GuideDangIt the unpredictable nature of this game.]]"''

->''"There are, to my mind, two ways to read this story. Either it's a flawed but mostly edgily brilliant piece of early post-modernism, or it's [[SophisticatedAsHell a complete crap-fest]]."''
-->-- '''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/anybody-remotely-interesting-is-mad-the-chase/ Dr. El Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase}} The Chase]]"

->''"Un-frickin'-believable. All this time [[LampshadeHanging I assumed he was some Machiavellian schemer]]. But in the end... he was [[NotSoDifferent just as big a fuck-up as the rest of us]]."''

-->-- '''Creator/BenCroshaw'', ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' review of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5''

-->-- '''Kayaba''', explaining his "plan" in ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged''

->''"What I learned during the frankly horrifying research that I had to slog through in order to accomplish this, was that yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists, and ham fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}, you really have nothing to worry about. If however you have a name ''similar'' to someone on a list targeted by the C.I.A., [[NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering then you are dead]]."''

->''"In all of the books that have come out about the [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]] administration, it's been extremely difficult to hide the fact that Reagan didn't have the foggiest idea what was going on. Whenever he [[OpenMouthInsertFoot wasn't properly programmed]], the things that would come out of his mouth were like--they weren't ''lies'', really, they were just kind of the babbling of a child. If a child babbles, it's not lies, it's just sort of on another plane. To be able to ''lie'', you have to have a certain degree of competence, you have to know what truth is. And there [[PointyHairedBoss didn't seem to be any indication that that was the case here]]."''

->Is it because journalists, as a class, are [[OldMediaAreEvil habitual liars]], and prefer what is not true to what is true? I don't think it is. Rather, it is because journalists are, in the main, extremely stupid, sentimental and credulous fellows -- because nothing is easier than to fool them -- because the majority of them lack the sharp intelligence that the proper discharge of their duties demands.
-->--'''Creator/HLMencken''', ''Prejudices: A Selection''

->What I learned during the frankly horrifying research that I had to slog through in order to accomplish this, was that yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists, and ham fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}, you really have nothing to worry about. If however you have a name ''similar'' to someone on a list targeted by the C.I.A., [[NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering then you are dead]].
-->--'''Creator/AlanMoore'''

->In all of the books that have come out about the UsefulNotes/{{R|onaldReagan}}eagan administration, it's been extremely difficult to hide the fact that Reagan didn't have the foggiest idea what was going on. Whenever he [[OpenMouthInsertFoot wasn't properly programmed]], the things that would come out of his mouth were like--they weren't ''lies'', really, they were just kind of the babbling of a child. If a child babbles, it's not lies, it's just sort of on another plane. To be able to ''lie'', you have to have a certain degree of competence, you have to know what truth is. And there [[PointyHairedBoss didn't seem to be any indication that that was the case here]].
-->--'''Noam Chomsky''' on Iran-Contra, ''Understanding Power''

->I don’t think [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]] could plan a bowl of cereal.
-->--'''Dylan Avery''', former 9-11 Truther

->Sometimes I think that Music/KanyeWest is less a musician than he is an ongoing study for unemployed anthropology majors. He's one of the biggest, most self-absorbed assholes on the planet, and yet people waste trillions of gigabytes of bandwidth to talk about what Kanye's assholishness [[SeeminglyProfoundFool MEANS]].
-->--'''[[http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2013/06/make-it-stop-the-worst-of-the-week-of-062813.html Drew Magary]]''', ''Make It Stop''

->I think the game has more to do with the star than the movie. I mean the star in the sky, the ''real'' Betelgeuse. It's a red supergiant that's going to explode one day... This particular star is always pulsating; it's so inconsistent that it's sometimes called the 9th brightest star in the sky, but usually the 10th. These fluctuations in inconsistencies are exactly what they were going for with [[GuideDangIt the unpredictable nature of this game.]]
-->--'''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''' on ''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'' for UsefulNotes/{{NES}}

->There are, to my mind, two ways to read this story. Either it's a flawed but mostly edgily brilliant piece of early post-modernism, or it's [[SophisticatedAsHell a complete crap-fest]].

-->--'''Chris Sims and David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-10-12-collateral/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Collateral")

->''Can't tell if trolling or just stupid.''
-->--'''The Internet'''

->''Really, the comforting side in most conspiracy theory arguments is the one claiming that anyone who's in power has any plan at all.''

->Unfortunately, in your sleep deprived state you accidentally manage to create a glitch that kills players when their avatars die! [...] Next thing you know, [[CallBack your tutorial NPC is nowhere to be found]] and players are dropping like Dorito-encrusted flies. Now, in this case any ''sane'' man would simply turn off the servers before anyone else got hurt. But because you've now been awake long enough to think that the government is run by Flubar, King of the MoleMen, the best idea that comes to your mind is to double, tripple and quadruple down. So you lock everyone into the game, tell them they'll die if they don't finish it and [[IMeantToDoThat try to make it look like this was all part of your "Master Plan"]], instead of an ever spiraling series of events that you've long since lost control of.

->Un-frickin'-believable. All this time [[LampshadeHanging I assumed he was some Machiavellian schemer]]. But in the end... he was [[NotSoDifferent just as big a fuck-up as the rest of us]].

->''You know, a lot of people today are saying that this generation of kids are in fact are[sic] the stupidest. Now that's debatable. Now I believe there have always been stupid people. But the internet provides greater opportunity for stupidity to be expressed and paraded. In this day and age with the internet, ignorance is a choice! AND THEY'RE STILL CHOOSING IGNORANCE''

->What I learned during the frankly horrifying research that I had to slog through in order to accomplish this, was that yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists, and ham fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the {{CIA}}, you really have nothing to worry about. If however you have a name ''similar'' to someone on a list targeted by the C.I.A., [[NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering then you are dead]].

-->-- '''Kayaba''', explaining his "plan" in ''SwordArtOnlineAbridged''

-->-- '''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/anybody-remotely-interesting-is-mad-the-chase/ Dr. Phil Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase}} The Chase]]"

->What I learned during the frankly horrifying research that I had to slog through in order to accomplish this, was that yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists, and ham fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the {{CIA}}, you really have nothing to worry about. If however you have a name ''similar'' to someone on a list targeted by the C.I.A., [[NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering then you are dead?]]

-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/03/anybody-remotely-interesting-is-mad.html Dr. Phil Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase}} The Chase]]"

-->--'''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''' on ''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'' for {{NES}}

-->--Chris Sims and David Uzumeri [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-10-12-collateral/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Collateral")

->''Unfortunately, in your sleep deprived state you accidentally manage to create a glitch that kills players when their avatars die! [...] Next thing you know, [[CallBack your tutorial NPC is nowhere to be found]] and players are dropping like Dorito-encrusted flies. Now, in this case any ''sane'' man would simply turn off the servers before anyone else got hurt. But because you've now been awake long enough to think that the government is run by Flubar, King of the MoleMen, the best idea that comes to your mind is to double, tripple and quadruple down. So you lock everyone into the game, tell them they'll die if they don't finish it and [[IMeantToDoThat try to make it look like this was all part of your "Master Plan"]], instead of an ever spiraling series of events that you've long since lost control of.