History Quotes / InsufferableGenius

-->-- '''UsefulNotes/StephenHawking''' in a 2004 ''New York Times'' interview

-->''Film/OurManFlint''

-->'''Film/OurManFlint''

->''"Ladies and gentlemen. I think the confusion here is that you are all very ignorant. Is that right word, ignorant? I mean stupid, primitive,unenlightened. You do not understand science, so you are afraid of it. Like a dog is afraid of thunder or balloons. To you, science is magic and witchcraft because you have such small minds. I cannot make your heads bigger, but your children's heads, I can take them and crack them open. This is what I try to do, to get at their brains!"''

-->-- '''Ruben Navarrete Jr.''', ''"[[https://www.thedailybeast.com/my-fatherly-advice-to-kids-growing-up-in-a-divided-country My Fatherly Advice to Kids Growing Up in a Divided Country]]"''

-->'''Logan''', ''WebVideo/SandersSides''

->''"Are you paying attention? Good. If you're not listening carefully you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. If you think that because you're sitting where you are and I am sitting where I am that you are in control of what is about to happen, you 're mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know."''

-->-- '''Iron Man''', ''ComicBook/IronMan''

'''Zuckerberg:''' ''[staring out window]'' I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don't want to perjure myself, [[BrutalHonesty so I have a legal obligation to say no.]]\\

'''Zuckerberg:''' I think if your clients [[PretenderDiss want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall]], they have the right to give it a try. But there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have ''part'' of my attention; you have the ''minimum'' amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room--including and ''especially'' your clients--are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. Did I adequately answer your condescending question?
-->--'''dialogue from the first half of ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'''''

-->-- '''Erica, in the second half of ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'''''


->"''You're not 'wrong,' Walter, you're just an [[JerkAss asshole]]."''

->'''Dr. Robotnik''': Are you in charge here?\\
'''Major Bennington''': Yes, I am-\\
'''Robotnik''': ''NOPE!''\\
'''Bennington''': ...my-\\
'''Robotnik''': ''WRONG!''\\
'''Bennington''': ...name's-\\
'''Robotnik''': ''I'M IN CHARGE!'' Allow me to clarify: ''[[MotorMouth in a sequentially-based hierarchy based on level of critical importance, the disparity between us is too vast to quantify]]''. Agent Stone?\\
'''Agent Stone''': The Doctor thinks you're basic.\\
'''Bennington''': Listen pal, I don't know if you realize-\\
'''Robotnik''': I'm sorry, Major, what was your name?\\
'''Bennington''': ''Benning-''\\
'''Robotnik''': ''NOBODY CARES!''

->'''Hugh Alexander''': If you run the wires across the plugboard matrix diagonally, you'll eliminate rotor positions 500 times faster.\\
'''UsefulNotes/AlanTuring''': This is actually not an entirely terrible idea.\\
'''Joan Clarke''': That's Alan for "thank you."
-->--''Film/TheImitationGame''

-->-- ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', "[[Recap/SherlockS01E01AStudyInPink A Study In Pink]]"

->'''Sherlock:''' ''[gives Watson a SherlockScan]''\\

-->-- ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', "[[Recap/SherlockS01E01AStudyInPink A Study In Pink]]"

->'''Kasidy:''' You don't mean he was ''gloating?'' A ''[[TearsFromAStone Vulcan?]]''\\

->'''Vash:''' It's over, Q. I want you out of my life. You are arrogant, you are overbearing and you think you know everything.\\
'''Q:''' But I do know everything.\\
'''Vash:''' That makes it even worse.
-->-- ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E07QLess Q-Less]]"

-->'''Luna:''' Dril, you helped design the Yamato, right? I trust you.\\

-->-- '''John R. Searle'''

->''With (Derrida, [[WordSaladPhilosophy you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure]]. Every time you say, "He says so and so," he always says, "You misunderstood me." But if you try to figure out the correct interpretation, then that’s not so easy. I once said this to Michel Foucault, who was more hostile to Derrida even than I am, and Foucault said that Derrida practiced the method of obscurantisme terroriste (terrorism of obscurantism). We were speaking French. And I said, "What the hell do you mean by that?" And he said, "He writes so obscurely you can’t tell what he’s saying, that’s the obscurantism part, and then when you criticize him, he can always say, 'You didn’t understand me; you’re an idiot.'"''

->''With (Derrida, [[WordSaladPhilosophy you can hardly misread him]], because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, "He says so and so," he always says, "You misunderstood me." But if you try to figure out the correct interpretation, then that’s not so easy. I once said this to Michel Foucault, who was more hostile to Derrida even than I am, and Foucault said that Derrida practiced the method of obscurantisme terroriste (terrorism of obscurantism). We were speaking French. And I said, "What the hell do you mean by that?" And he said, "He writes so obscurely you can’t tell what he’s saying, that’s the obscurantism part, and then when you criticize him, he can always say, 'You didn’t understand me; you’re an idiot.'"''

->''With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, "He says so and so," he always says, "You misunderstood me." But if you try to figure out the correct interpretation, then that’s not so easy. I once said this to Michel Foucault, who was more hostile to Derrida even than I am, and Foucault said that Derrida practiced the method of obscurantisme terroriste (terrorism of obscurantism). We were speaking French. And I said, "What the hell do you mean by that?" And he said, "He writes so obscurely you can’t tell what he’s saying, that’s the obscurantism part, and then when you criticize him, he can always say, 'You didn’t understand me; you’re an idiot.'"''

->Imagine the worst [[KnowNothingKnowItAll barroom know-it-all]] you've ever met, [[TVGenius who really does]], and is cursed with [[MotorMouth a tourettes-like compulsion to spill anything relevant on any topic that comes up]], and you're [[UpToEleven about halfway there]].

->''"You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know from the bottom of my heart that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole."''
-->-- '''Erica''', ''Film/TheSocialNetwork''

-->-- ''Film/TheSocialNetwork''