
“The surest way to smartness is through massive dumbness.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
As quoted by * Daniel Dale
2020-08-03
Jonathan Swan reveals the simple secret to exposing Trump's lies: basic follow-up questions
CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/04/politics/fact-check-jonathan-swan-axios-hbo-interview-trump-coronavirus/index.html
2020, August 2020
“The surest way to smartness is through massive dumbness.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
2010s, 2016, July, (21 July 2016)
“You damned fools. You can either vote for me for mayor or you can go to hell.”
Quoted in Chicago Magazine, June 2006 http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2006/The-Perfect-Mayor/
Speaking at an anniversary celebration of the Equal Rights Association in New York, responding to Rev. Mrs. Hanaford, who had asked that the assembly disavow "Free Loveism," as being upsetting and alienating to "the Christian men and women of New England everywhere." (12 May 1869), quoted in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2 (1882)
Context: You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.
“Cheating is only cheating when you get caught, and bragging isn't bragging when you can do it.”
Source: World Wrestling Federation (1984-1993), Summerslam (1993)
[Re: Real men don't attack straw men, MARC, openbsd-misc (Mailing list), http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119761726816776, 2007-12-14, 2017-04-20]
Quoted in Ted Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/amit_lodha_how_to_be_a_top_cop
Quotation
Appearance on The Midnight Special in August 1972 in a Get Out The Vote drive; as quoted at the official Cass Elliot website.
“It wasn’t fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn’t delivered like the mail.”
Source: Last Call (1992), Chapter 8 (p. 77)