“I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
“I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Tweets published https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/949618475877765120 by @realDonaldTrump https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/949619270631256064 (6 January 2018) <br class="br">2010s, 2018, January
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Speech in http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020917-7.html Nashville, Tennessee, (September 17, 2002), in which the president confused a centuries-old proverb ("Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.") <br class="br">2000s, 2002
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
Context: There is, however, no propriety in wasting any time about the science of metaphysics. I will give you my definition of metaphysics: Two fools get together; each admits what neither can prove, and thereupon both of them say, “hence we infer.” That is all there is of metaphysics.
Laura Penny (1975) Canadian journalist
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 4
“Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.”
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Refering to his conclusion to the Barber paradox or Russell's paradox. <br class="br">Dijkstra (1985) Where is Russell's paradox? http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EWD923a.html (EWD 923A). <br class="br">1980s
Edmund Clerihew Bentley book Trent's Last Case
Source: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter XIII: "Eruption"