“For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.”

“If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em … even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.”

“Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this?”

“I love being around people that are smarter than me, that think faster than me. So even if you're a dork, and you wear stupid clothes, and you make a fool of yourself, and everyone makes fun of you, and you're just an idiot—I don't care about the context. I don't care. If you're genius and I recognize it, I kind of dig that.”

“An idiot is no smarter if a billion people agree with him and a genius is no dumber if a billion people don't.”

“I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off."
"Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.”

“Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.”

“We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot."
"Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.”

“Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.”

“There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.”