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“Bankers grovelled before the governments they usually revile, like wispy poets whining for grant money. They got billions in bailouts, yet somehow the financial sector still inspires more trust and respect than the government that saved it from itself.”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Five, Bully vs. Nerd, p. 168

“All we really need to do is learn 'em so they don't frig up the cash register or offend the customers.”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Three, Is our Schools Sucking?, p. 90

“We are not the adults in the sense that Kant intended, but adolescents. This is a problem, because we are the world's most heavily armed teenagers.”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Two, At the Arse End of the Late Great Enlightenment, p. 58

“Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 13

“"You think you're so smart" is never a compliment; the only thing worse than being smart is thinking that you are.”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 4

“Laughing at the clueless mouthfarts of cute twenty somethings who spent their high-school years with vocal coaches or plastic surgeons is another variation on the theme "Are we getting dumber?"”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter six, More is Less, p. 184

Laura Penny Quotes

“The humanities are despised because they are dangerous.”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Seven, If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?, p. 235 (See also: Chris Hedges)
Context: The humanities are despised because they are dangerous. They arm us with the intellectual weapons we need to fight the forces of ignorance and idiocracy, and to free ourselves from freedumb.

“Who teh heLL R u 2 tELL me what 2 reed or how 2 spel?”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Four, Screw U or Hate My Professors, p. 120 (spelling as per text...)

Hell

“When we valorize ignorance and debase reason, we diminish man and the humanity that dwells within him, to bum an old fashioned phrase from Kant.”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 35

Fashion

“It's a shame that pantyless party girls get more attention than the real heroes, the nurses and teachers and moms.”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter six, More is Less, p. 183

Girl , Moms , Teachers

“If there is no more market for ancient Greek, there should be no more ancient Greek. If there are no jobs for historians, there should be no history. If there is no money in brains, there should be no brains - except for the brains that make money.”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Four, Screw U or Hate My Professors, p. 131

Money , History

“Posthumous fame, book fame, nerd fame is not like the good kind of fame. It might last for centuries and let antique egg heads torture the young from the grave, but it just doesn't pay the bills.”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Seven, If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?, p. 206 (See also: Henry David Thoreau, Karl Marx, James Joyce, Herman Mellville...)

Books

“Why clog your head with tedious facts about the past when you can simply demand an exam review sheet or consult Google or Wikipedia?”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 23

Past

“Nerds do not think they are better than you. Nerds are better than you, in their particular fields, unless you happen to be an even more devoted nerd.”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 12

Thinking

“The panic over public health care is funny and sad, since America has had death panels and sinister bureaucrats for years. They're called Aetna, Humana, and Wellpoint, they make a killing, figuratively and literally.”

Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Five, Bully vs. Nerd, p. 139