It is probably named after a Ronald M. Hanlon, who submitted the statement to Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong!
[2] The character Doc in the story describes the "devil theory" fallacy, explaining, "You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
"[3] Hanlon's razor became well known after its inclusion in the Jargon File, a glossary of computer programmer slang, in 1990.
[2] The link to Murphy's law was described in a pair of 2001 blog entries by Quentin Stafford-Fraser, citing emails from Joseph E.
[12]Douglas W. Hubbard quoted Hanlon's razor and added "a clumsier but more accurate corollary": Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system.