American Safety Razor Company American Safety Razor Company "For the company of the same name that was founded in 1901 and renamed as the Gillette Safety Razor Company, see Gillette (brand)" American Safety Razor Company is a personal care brand founded in the early 20th century (1906) by a merging of the Gem Cutlery Company & Ever-Ready and has been a principal competitor to Gillette for a century and more. Unrelated to the Gillette company which also used the name " 'American Safety Razor Company' " in 1901 until 1904 before it was renamed for its founder, King C. Gillette. The company produces a
Hanlon's razor Hanlon's razor Hanlon's razor is an aphorism expressed in various ways, including: An eponymous law, probably named after a Robert J. Hanlon, it is a philosophical razor which suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior. Inspired by Occam's razor, the aphorism was popularized in this form and under this name by the "Jargon File", a glossary of computer programmer slang. In 1990, it appeared in the "Jargon File" described as a "'murphyism' parallel to Occam's Razor". Later that same year, the "Jargon File" editors noted lack of knowledge about the term's derivation and the existence of a