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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards

I'm all in favour of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

Leo Szilard

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Louis Aragon

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Gustave Flaubert

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

William Blake

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots

Alfred Jarry

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Your intelligence is measured by those around you; if you spend your days with idiots you seal your own fate.

Unknown

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Rich Cook

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Karl Kraus

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

Alfred Jarry

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Mark Twain

Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasnt theirs.

Frank Chimero

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Darwin's theory of evolution was simple, beautiful, majestic and awe-inspiring. But because it contradicts the allegorical babblings of a bunch of made-up old books, it's been under attack since day one. That's just tough luck for Darwin. If the Bible had contained a passage that claimed gravity is caused by God pulling objects toward the ground with magic invisible threads, we'd still be debating Newton with idiots too.

Charlton

The village idiots in her bed Never cared that her eyes were red Never cared that her brain was dead. In the hours that her face was alive It was a thing just to be by her side.

Edie Brickell

Or you'll get on your cell phone, which is really smart. "Oh I'm gonna be late!" That's fuckin smart: to drive with one of those fuckin things in your hand. It's bad enough that people are in supermarkets -- "Honey, I love you." FUCK YOU, okay? Shut-up! I'm trying to buy a tomato, okay, got it? I'm even carrying mine, this piece of shit. This is Sprint. [someone cheers] Oh.. FUCK SPRINT. okay? You work for those idiots, I need to talk to you. "Every call is crystal clear." Yeah, right: to yourself! You can hear you!

Lewis Niles Black

To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess.

William Blake

Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade, Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.

William Blake

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

Karen von Blixen-Finecke

Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.

Niels Henrik David Bohr

That's a 7.76mm round, you idiots, if you fire it into the air it comes to earth you know not where, like on some little kid's soft-skulled head, and that's the end of the kid. They're too stupid to even figure that much out.

Gary Brecher