There are many similar sayings. One example is "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." Something similar has been attributed to science fiction author Robert Heinlein’s short story "Logic of Empire" in 1941 (“I would say that you have fallen into the commonest fallacy of all in dealing with social and economic subjects-the "devil theory".'Huh?' 'You have attributed conditions of villainy that simply result from stupidity.”). The phrase has also been erroneously attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte.= = = Hulk = = =
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