"There is no sin except stupidity." - Oscar Wilde "Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point." - Robert Anton Wilson "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell Five fundamental laws of stupidity: * Always and inevitably each of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. * The probability that a given person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic possessed by that person. * A person is stupid if they cause damage to another person or group of people without experiencing personal gain, or even worse causing damage to themselves in the process. * Non-stupid people always underestimate the harmful potential of stupid people; they constantly forget that at any time anywhere, and in any circumstance, dealing with or associating themselves with stupid individuals invariably constitutes a costly error. * A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person there is. - Carlo Maria Cipolla "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." - George Carlin "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin