Quotes about Idiots

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

I suspect few housing projects in the US were designed by architects who expected to live in them. You see the same thing in programming languages. C, Lisp, and Smalltalk were created for their own designers to use. Cobol, Ada, and Javawere created for other people to use. If you think you're designing something for idiots, odds are you're not designing something good, even for idiots.

[On Hollywood:] There are millions to be grabbed out here, and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

Oh, I love London Society! It has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.