“Damn, I miss the internet. You could always find people doing stupid stuff on the internet.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: Calamity
Larry King Live interview (2010)
Context: I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider — and also FOX News makes people stupider. You know the Pew group did a study recently and they found out that 10 years ago, Democrats, Republicans and independents basically got their news from the same sources, probably more from CNN, for example. Then we had this polarity. … We do have two Americas. We have the America that's living in reality. The people who understand that Obama is a centrist liberal from Hawaii who is trying to dig us out of the hole we're in. And then we have this other FOX/Matt Drudge/Rush Limbaugh reality where he is a Muslim sleeper cell, Manchurian candidate who was sent over by his Kenyan father …
“Damn, I miss the internet. You could always find people doing stupid stuff on the internet.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: Calamity
Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager
On José Mourinho, (November 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/4398238.stm <br class="br">Context: He's out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Theory of Knowledge (1913)
1910s
“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.”
Don Winslow (1953) American writer
Ben Aaronovitch book Whispers Under Ground
Source: Whispers Under Ground (2012), Chapter 21, “Oxford Circus” (p. 226)