In the New Adventures department, Al wanted something on a T-shirt, so I made it for him, and it looked so good, I put a bunch of them up for sale. Choose your shirt, the saying comes for free.
And that is how I wasted this rainy afternoon.
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Lee Thomson 
What is the quote? I can’t read it in the photo, and don’t see it anywhere in the descriptions.
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The text on the shirts reads:
any sufficiently advanced incompentence is indistinguishable from malice
This is apparently an adaptation of the third of Arthur Clarke’s laws(1) which states that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” to Hanlon’s Razor(2) which states that we should “never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
Also, there have been some suggestions that this could be referred to as Bush’s Law.
Interestingly, Terry Pratchett has twisted this law around to state that “any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.”
References:
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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