History Quotes / KnownothingKnowItAll

'''Mulder:''' Yours truly. ''(long silence)'' Hello? Scully?? You there?\\
'''Scully:''' Mulder... when was the last time ''you'' went on a date?\\
'''Mulder:''' I will talk to you later. ''(hangs ups)''

->''"''[Robert]'' [=McNamara=] was apotheosized as the very model of the modern star business executive, the first non-Ford to be president of Ford Motor Company and the first [=MBA=] from Harvard to ascend so high in government. Or so he was lionized until his management genius (and [[TooCleverByHalf its accompanying arrogance]]) proved to be worthless, if not counterproductive, to manage an intratable guerilla war in [[VietnamWar Vietnam]]."''
-->--'''Frank Rich''', ''The Greatest Story Ever Sold''

->'''Homer:''' I don't need any serving suggestions, you barbecue-wrecking, ''[[TropeNamer know-nothing know-it-all!]]''
-->--''TheSimpsons'', "Lisa the Vegetarian"

->'''Mulder''': He just wants some dating advice.\\
'''Scully''': From whom?\\
'''Mulder:''' Yours truly. ''(long silence)'' Hello? Scully??\\
'''Scully''': Mulder......... when was the last time ''you'' went on a date?\\
'''Mulder''': I will talk to you later. ''(hangs ups)''
-->--'''''TheXFiles''''', "The Rain King"

->''"Having equal rights does not mean having equal talents, equal abilities, or equal knowledge. It assuredly does not mean that 'everyone’s opinion about anything is as good as anyone else’s.' And yet, this is now enshrined as the credo of a fair number of people despite being obvious nonsense... To take but one horrifying example, we live today in an advanced post-industrial country that is now fighting a resurgence of whooping cough — a scourge nearly eliminated a century ago — merely because otherwise intelligent people have been second-guessing their doctors and refusing to vaccinate their kids after reading stuff written by people who know exactly zip about medicine. (Yes, I mean people like [[Series/TheView Jenny McCarthy.]])"''
-->'''''The Federalist''''', [[http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/ "The Death of Expertise"]]

->''"'Trump University' is proof that you can't make words explode, no matter how violently you combine opposites. Creator/DonaldTrump can lose money in a casino [[EpicFail when he owns it]]. He doesn't learn from his mistakes, [[NeverMyFault he bankrupts or sues them]], and the only thing he can teach people is that they shouldn't have given him their money, a lesson his educational dialysis facility taught well. It called itself "Trump University" despite a total lack of accreditation. A strip club could claim they were teaching anatomy with exactly the same legitimacy. It was legally forced to change its name by the New York State Department of Education, which stated, 'Use of the word 'university' by your corporation is misleading and violates New York Education Law.' Even in New York, a city of shining spires to every kind of financial bullshit imaginable, [[EvenEvilHasStandards it is illegal for Trump to claim that he can teach you anything]]."''

->''"Collins College has the same approach to education as Nigerian Princes have to economics...There's really no reference point to our reality in this clip. Obviously, games aren't designed with {{Xbox}} controllers, and cut scenes aren't animated by way of vague verbal commands."''

->''"To the left of the fireplace, a chiaroscuro Neapolitan painting by Viola. 'Typical of early eighteenth-century South German painting,' boomed the journalist Joe Alsop. As Joe was an expert on everything, he was generally wrong on everything, particularly on his subject, politics. For thirty years we were losing to Communism, according to Joe."''

->''"'Trump University' is proof that you can't make words explode, no matter how violently you combine opposites. Creator/DonaldTrump can lose money in a casino when he owns it. He doesn't learn from his mistakes, [[NeverMyFault he bankrupts or sues them]], and the only thing he can teach people is that they shouldn't have given him their money, a lesson his educational dialysis facility taught well. It called itself "Trump University" despite a total lack of accreditation. A strip club could claim they were teaching anatomy with exactly the same legitimacy. It was legally forced to change its name by the New York State Department of Education, which stated, 'Use of the word 'university' by your corporation is misleading and violates New York Education Law.' Even in New York, a city of shining spires to every kind of financial bullshit imaginable, [[EvenEvilHasStandards it is illegal for Trump to claim that he can teach you anything]]."''

->''"Having equal rights does not mean having equal talents, equal abilities, or equal knowledge. It assuredly does not mean that 'everyone’s opinion about anything is as good as anyone else’s.' And yet, this is now enshrined as the credo of a fair number of people despite being obvious nonsense... To take but one horrifying example, we live today in an advanced post-industrial country that is now fighting a resurgence of whooping cough — a scourge nearly eliminated a century ago — merely because otherwise intelligent people have been second-guessing their doctors and refusing to vaccinate their kids after reading stuff written by people who know exactly zip about medicine. (Yes, I mean people like [[Series/TheView Jenny McCarthy.]])"''
-->'''''The Federalist''''', [[http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/ "The Death of Expertise"]]

->''"After [[BillClinton Clinton]] slovenliness, the new White House would be run like a Fortune 500 corporation [[GeorgeWBush by a steely, no-nonsense team of razor sharp executives]]. This hoopla was reminiscent of that surrounding President-elect JohnFKennedy's nomination of Robert [=McNamara=] as Secretary of Defense in 1960. [=McNamara=] was apotheosized as the very model of the modern star business executive, the first non-Ford to be president of Ford Motor Company and the first [=MBA=] from Harvard to ascend so high in government. Or so he was lionized until his management genius (and [[TooCleverByHalf its accompanying arrogance]]) proved to be worthless, if not counterproductive, to manage an intratable guerilla war in [[VietnamWar Vietnam]]."''
-->--'''Frank Rich''', ''The Greatest Story Ever Sold''

->''"'Trump University' is proof that you can't make words explode, no matter how violently you combine opposites. Creator/DonaldTrump can lose money in a casino when he owns it. He doesn't learn from his mistakes, he bankrupts or sues them, and the only thing he can teach people is that they shouldn't have given him their money, a lesson his educational dialysis facility taught well. It called itself "Trump University" despite a total lack of accreditation. A strip club could claim they were teaching anatomy with exactly the same legitimacy. It was legally forced to change its name by the New York State Department of Education, which stated, 'Use of the word 'university' by your corporation is misleading and violates New York Education Law.' Even in New York, a city of shining spires to every kind of financial bullshit imaginable, [[EvenEvilHasStandards it is illegal for Trump to claim that he can teach you anything]]."''

->''"Having equal rights does not mean having equal talents, equal abilities, or equal knowledge. It assuredly does not mean that 'everyone’s opinion about anything is as good as anyone else’s.' And yet, this is now enshrined as the credo of a fair number of people despite being obvious nonsense.... This isn’t just about politics, which would be bad enough. No, it’s worse than that: the perverse effect of the death of expertise is that without real experts, everyone is an expert on everything. To take but one horrifying example, we live today in an advanced post-industrial country that is now fighting a resurgence of whooping cough — a scourge nearly eliminated a century ago — merely because otherwise intelligent people have been second-guessing their doctors and refusing to vaccinate their kids after reading stuff written by people who know exactly zip about medicine. (Yes, I mean people like Jenny McCarthy.)"''

->''"'Trump University' is proof that you can't make words explode, no matter how violently you combine opposites. Creator/DonaldTrump can lose money in a casino when he owns it. He doesn't learn from his mistakes, he bankrupts or sues them, and the only thing he can teach people is that they shouldn't have given him their money, a lesson his educational dialysis facility taught well. It called itself "Trump University" despite a total lack of accreditation. A strip club could claim they were teaching anatomy with exactly the same legitimacy. It was legally forced to change its name by the New York State Department of Education, which stated, 'Use of the word 'university' by your corporation is misleading and violates New York Education Law.' Even in New York, a city of shining spires to every kind of financial bullshit imaginable, [[EvenEvilHasStandards it is illegal for Trump to claim that he can teach you anythin]]g."''

->''"'Trump University' is proof that you can't make words explode, no matter how violently you combine opposites. Creator/DonaldTrump can lose money in a casino when he owns it. He doesn't learn from his mistakes, he bankrupts or sues them, and the only thing he can teach people is that they shouldn't have given him their money, a lesson his educational dialysis facility taught well. It called itself "Trump University" despite a total lack of accreditation. A strip club could claim they were teaching anatomy with exactly the same legitimacy. It was legally forced to change its name by the New York State Department of Education, which stated, 'Use of the word 'university' by your corporation is misleading and violates New York Education Law.' Even in [[BigRottenApple New York]], a city of shining spires to every kind of financial bullshit imaginable, it is illegal for Trump to claim that he can teach you anything."''

->''"'Trump University' is proof that you can't make words explode, no matter how violently you combine opposites. Creator/DonaldTrump can lose money in a casino when he owns it. He doesn't learn from his mistakes, he bankrupts or sues them, and the only thing he can teach people is that they shouldn't have given him their money, a lesson his educational dialysis facility taught well. It called itself "Trump University" despite a total lack of accreditation. A strip club could claim they were teaching anatomy with exactly the same legitimacy. It was legally forced to change its name by the New York State Department of Education, which stated, "Use of the word 'university' by your corporation is misleading and violates New York Education Law." Even in [[BigRottenApple New York]], a city of shining spires to every kind of financial bullshit imaginable, it is illegal for Trump to claim that he can teach you anything."''"''

->''Jeffrey Lyons is the most reliable movie critic in the world…if you [[BaitAndSwitchComment do the opposite of everything he says]]. He is a man so impressively wrong that you would do well to stay as far away from his advice as you can.''
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/miracle-at-st-anna-spike-lee-2008/ on]] ''Miracle at St. Anna''

->''To the left of the fireplace, a chiaroscuro Neapolitan painting by Viola. "Typical of early eighteenth-century South German painting," boomed the journalist Joe Alsop. As Joe was an expert on everything, he was generally wrong on everything, particularly on his subject, politics. For thirty years we were losing to Communism, according to Joe.''

->''YOu MAY THINK YOu'RE SMART. BuT EXCESSIVE SMARTNESS CAN MAKE YOu BE MORE OF AN IDIOT.''
-->-- '''Caliborn''', ''Homestuck''

->'''Homer:''' I don't need any serving suggestions, you barbecue-wrecking, ''[[TromeNamer know-nothing know-it-all!]]''

-->-- '''Fact Sphere''', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''

-->-- '''Fact Sphere''', ''{{Portal 2}}''