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

— Gordon Korman, One False Note

Variant: For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
Source: One False Note

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Canadian American children's writer 1963

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