“I don't think writers are anythan other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their.”
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David Foster Wallace185
American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008Related quotes
“I think I think harder, think more than other people do, than other scientists.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) American scientist
Interview at Big Sur, California http://web.archive.org/web/20101212203431/http://achievement.org/autodoc/page/pau0int-3 (11 November 1990). <br class="br">1990s <br class="br">Context: I've been asked from time to time, "How does it happen that you have made so many discoveries? Are you smarter than other scientists?" And my answer has been that I am sure that I am not smarter than other scientists. I don't have any precise evaluation of my IQ, but to the extent that psychologists have said that my IQ is about 160, I recognize that there are one hundred thousand or more people in the United States that have IQs higher than that. So I have said that I think I think harder, think more than other people do, than other scientists. That is, for years, almost all of my thinking was about science and scientific problems that I was interested in.
“I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid”
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“I don't think it's racialist. We can't use them if they're a bit stupid.”
Stansfield Turner (1923–2018) former United States Navy admiral and former Director of Central Intelligence and President of the Naval Wa…
Interview with Sacha Baron Cohen (as Ali G), on Da Ali G Show · YouTube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nNfM3aa2g#t=36 <br class="br">2000s
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[7238@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990