Line #39 Quotes/InsufferableGenius


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2
3	[[folder:Comic Books]]
4	->''"I'm a friggin' genius and none of you ever listen to me!"''
5	-->-- '''Tony Stark''', ''ComicBook/IronMan''
6	[[/folder]]
7
8	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
9	->''"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!"''
10	-->-- '''Mr. Rzykruski''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}''
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12
13	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
14	->'''Cramden:''' Flint, I owe you my life. The medics said four more seconds and I--
15	->'''Flint:''' ''Three'' more seconds, sir.
16	->'''Cramden:''' Dammit man, is there anything you don't know?!
17	-->-- ''Film/OurManFlint''
18
19	->'''Mr. Gage:''' Do you think I deserve your full attention?\
20	'''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]].\
21	'''Gage:''' Okay. "No." You ''don't'' think I deserve your attention.\
22	'''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?
23	-->-- ''Film/TheSocialNetwork''
24
25	->''"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."''
26	-->-- '''Erica''', ''Film/TheSocialNetwork''
27
28	->"''You're not 'wrong,' Walter, you're just an [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]]."''
29	-->-- '''The Dude,''' ''Film/TheBigLebowski''
30
31	->'''Dr. Robotnik:''' Are you in charge here?\
32	'''Major Bennington:''' Yes, I am--\
33	'''Robotnik:''' ''NOPE!''\
34	'''Bennington:''' ...my--\
35	'''Robotnik:''' ''WRONG!''\
36	'''Bennington:''' ...name's--\
37	'''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?\
38	'''Agent Stone:''' The Doctor thinks you're basic.\
39	'''Bennington:''' Listen, pal, I don't know if you realize--\
40	'''Robotnik:''' I'm sorry, Major, what was your name?\
41	'''Bennington:''' ''Benning--''\
42	'''Robotnik:''' ''NOBODY CARES!''
43	-->-- ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020''
44
45	->'''Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr:''' Would you read that back to me? I'm afraid that might make me sound pompous to your readers.\
46	'''Reporter:''' "My brilliant research in brain transplantation is unsurpassed, and will probably make my name live beyond eternity."\
47	'''Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr:''' Well, that's all right. Take out the "probably". It makes me sound wishy-washy.
48	-->-- ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains''
49
50	->'''Hugh Alexander:''' If you run the wires across the plugboard matrix diagonally, you'll eliminate rotor positions 500 times faster.\
51	'''UsefulNotes/AlanTuring:''' This is actually not an entirely terrible idea.\
52	'''Joan Clarke:''' That's Alan for "thank you."
53	-->-- ''Film/TheImitationGame''
54
55	->''"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."''
56	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AlanTuring''', ''Film/TheImitationGame''
57	[[/folder]]
58
59	[[folder:Literature]]
60	->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 about halfway there.
61	-->-- ''Literature/CiaphasCain: Hero of the Imperium'', on Caractacus Mott
62
63	->The education of UsefulNotes/JohnQuincyAdams was to be the most superb of any of the American presidents, and consequently absolutely crippling; he knew too many languages, books, nations, political and philosophical systems to be able to preside with any grace or tolerance over the dingy republic of his day.
64	-->-- "The Four Generations of the Adams Family", by Creator/GoreVidal
65
66	->'''Letice Earwig:''' Then perhaps she should learn to [[TallPoppySyndrome be a bit more humble]]...\
67	'''Nanny Ogg:''' What's she got to be humble about?
68	-->-- "The Sea and Little Fishes" on [[TheArchmage Granny Weatherwax]], ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
69
70	->"This, Quentin. This is greatness. These are things you will never do. Never understand."
71	->It was true. Even with the strength he'd gained after his father died, he would never be in [[TheArchmage Mayakovsky]]'s league. It cost him nothing to admit it. He just wished that with all his genius Mayakovsky could ''help'' them.
72	-->--''[[Literature/TheMagicians The Magician's Land]]''
73
74	->''Well, I came top of the class again. One hundred out of one hundred for Maths. And one hundred out of one hundred for English. I'm just a natural brain, the best there is. There isn't one kid in the class who can come near me. Next to me, they're all dumb.''
75	-->-- '''Unnamed Boy''', ''Smart Ice Cream'' by Creator/PaulJennings
76	[[/folder]]
77
78	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
79	->'''Dick:''' I made the front page of ''The Daily Badgerian'' again.\
80	'''Tommy:''' What's it say?\
81	'''Sally:''' ''[reading headline]'' "Physics professor calls [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]] idiot; [[PlatoIsAMoron proclaims self much smarter.]]"
82	-->-- ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', "Proud Dick"
83
84	->'''Leonard:''' We think we can help you with your stage fright.\
85	'''Sheldon:''' Oh, I doubt that. I haven't figured out a way, and I'm much smarter than all of you.\
86	'''Penny:''' Yes, but you're not smarter than all of us put together.\
87	'''Sheldon:''' Oh, I'm sorry, that is what I meant.
88	-->-- ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''
89
90	->''"Don't you think if I were wrong, I'd know it?"''
91	-->-- '''Sheldon''', ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''
92
93	->'''Howard:''' You enjoy making fun of engineering ''so'' much. How do you quantify the strength of materials?\
94	'''Sheldon:''' Young's modulus.\
95	'''Raj:''' Is that right?\
96	'''Howard:''' Yeah... Okay, how do you prevent eddy currents in a transformer?\
97	'''Sheldon:''' Laminate the core material.\
98	'''Leonard:''' C'mon, give him a hard one.\
99	'''Howard:''' That ''was'' a hard one!
100	-->-- ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''
101
102	->''"Dear ''God''. What is it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring."''
103	-->-- ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', "[[Recap/SherlockS01E01AStudyInPink A Study in Pink]]"
104
105	->''[after Sherlock has given Watson a SherlockScan]''\
106	'''Watson:''' That's amazing.\
107	'''Sherlock:''' People who don't know me often say that.\
108	'''Watson:''' What do the people who do know you say?\
109	'''Sherlock:''' "Piss off."
110	-->-- ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', "[[Recap/SherlockS01E01AStudyInPink A Study in Pink]]"
111
112	->''"I'd say you're a genius, but I'm in the room."''
113	-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho''
114
115	->'''Rose:''' With you, did [the Doctor] do that thing where he'd explain something at like [[MotorMouth ninety miles an hour]], and you'd go "[[FlatWhat what]]?", and he'd look at you like you just dribbled on your shirt?\
116	'''Sarah Jane:''' ''[laughing]'' All the time!
117	-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]]"
118
119	->'''Vash:''' It's over, Q. I want you out of my life. You are arrogant, you are overbearing and you think you know everything.\
120	'''Q:''' But I do know everything.\
121	'''Vash:''' That makes it even worse.
122	-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E07QLess Q-Less]]"
123
124	->''"It's a talent bringing dead worlds to life, but humility and common sense aren't part of the job description."''
125	-->-- '''Jadzia Dax''' describing terraformers, ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E09SecondSight Second Sight]]"
126
127	->'''Kasidy:''' You don't mean he was ''gloating?'' A ''[[TearsFromAStone Vulcan]]?''\
128	'''Sisko:''' That's ''exactly'' what I mean! Ohh, he may have hidden it beneath that "[[PolitenessJudo Vulcan calm]]"! But ''inside'', he loved every minute of it.
129	-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E04TakeMeOutToTheHolosuite Take Me Out to the Holosuite]]"
130
131	->''"Have the Q always had an absence of manners, or is it the result of some natural evolutionary process that comes with omnipotence?"''
132	-->-- '''Tuvok''', ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E18DeathWish Death Wish]]"
133
134	->''"How can you speak six languages and sound like a dick in every one of them?"''
135	-->-- '''Cisco Ramon''', ''Series/TheFlash2014''
136
137	->''""Narcissist", "sociopath", "evil genius"...there are a lot of ways to describe Lex Luthor. But I find "douchebag" to be the most descriptive."''
138	-->-- '''Ryan Choi''', ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019''
139
140	->'''Perkins:''' You know Doctor, I can't tell if you're a genius or just incredibly arrogant.\
141	'''The Doctor:''' Well, on a good day I'm both.
142	-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E8MummyOnTheOrientExpress Mummy on the Orient Express]]"
143
144	->''[At a rehearsal for a live closed-circuit classroom on a Mars probe landing]''\
145	'''C.J:''' Mr. President, I strongly urge you to act as moderator and pass the questions off to one of the experts instead of answering them yourself. Would you like to see some of the questions?\
146	''[...]''\
147	'''President Bartlet:''' Katie, 6th Grader, Greenoaks Junior High, Austin, Texas asks: "How old is the planet Mars?" That's a great question, Katie: the planet Mars is 4.6 billion years old.\
148	'''C.J:''' What did I just say?!\
149	'''President Bartlet:''' I knew that one.\
150	'''C.J:''' Sir, no one likes a know-it-all.\
151	'''President Bartlet:''' [[SarcasmMode Yes, God forbid that while talking to 60,000 public school students the President should appear smart.]]\
152	'''C.J:''' That's fine, just don't show off.\
153	'''President Bartlet:''' [[BlatantLies I don't show off]]. Stevie, 4th Grader, [=Ps41=] Manhattan asks: "What is the temperature on Mars?" ... [[DeadpanSnarker Well, Stevie, if one of our expert panellists were here]], they'd tell you the average temperature ranges from 15 degrees to -140.\
154	'''C.J:''' That happens to be wrong! ''[Consulting notes]'' It ranges from 60 to -225.\
155	'''President Bartlet:''' I converted it to Celsius in my head.
156	-->-- ''Series/TheWestWing'', "[[Recap/TheWestWingS02E09Galileo Galileo]]"
157
158	->''"My friend is never wrong which is...as annoying...as that sounds."''
159	-->-- '''Sameen Shaw''', ''Series/PersonOfInterest''
160
161	->''"Ain't I great? Ain't I awesome? Ain't I a genius?"''
162	-->-- '''Sento Kiryu''', ''Series/KamenRiderBuild''
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164
165	[[folder:Video Games]]
166	->''"A shame. If you were anything akin to me, perhaps we could've become friends. Then again, you would need an IQ of more than 200 to meet the minimum criteria."''
167	-->-- '''Bedman''' to... [[MirrorMatch himself]], ''[[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Guilty Gear: Xrd]]''
168
169	->''"Must I remind you of my superiority?"''
170	-->-- '''ComicBook/LexLuthor''', ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs''
171
172	->''"Sir, don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come over to your cave and tell you how to bang rocks together, do I?"''
173	-->-- '''Terachnoid from Omnitech commercial,''' ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime''
174
175	->''"I find myself in need of [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} your]] unique [[ClassyCatBurglar skillsets]], your "street smarts", as your intellectually challenged kind adorably calls them."''
176	-->-- '''ComicBook/TheRiddler''', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''
177
178	->''"It isn't hubris... when one is truly exceptional."''
179	-->-- '''Gorilla Grodd''', ''VideoGame/Injustice2''
180
181	->''"We're studying contrasts! I'm excellent and you're, well, not!"''\
182	''"I look forward to analysing your mistakes."''\
183	''"It's hard to be a genius when you're surrounded by lesser minds."''\
184	''"I've prepared an entire treatise on your impending failure."''
185	-->-- '''Dovin Baan''', ''[[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Magic the Gathering: Arena]]''
186
187	->''"You should be glad I'm with you to point out all your stupid mistakes."''
188	-->-- '''Myron''', ''VideoGame/Fallout2''
189
190	->''"Do you know what that condescending bitch said to me after our first game of [[SmartPeoplePlayChess chess?]]"''
191	-->-- '''Cortana''', referring to '''Doctor Halsey''', ''VideoGame/Halo4''
192
193	->''"Prodigy" doesn't begin to cover it. "Insufferable" starts to.''
194	--> '''Description of Nicolai Surev,''' ''VideoGame/SystemCrash''
195
196	->''"I am asura. I personify genius."''
197	--> ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'', opening cutscene for every newly-created asura character.
198
199	->'''Luna:''' Dril, you helped design the Yamato, right? I trust you.\
200	'''Dril:''' Good! 'Cause I'm smarter than Mr. Last Place there. Right, Hamco?\
201	'''Sho:''' Shut up, already!
202	--> ''VideoGame/SolCresta''
203
204	->''"[[LampshadeHanging Are all geniuses so arrogant?]]"''
205	-->-- '''Bella''' on Evan, ''VideoGame/TheSakabashiraGame''
206	[[/folder]]
207
208	[[folder:Webcomics]]
209	->'''Music/FryderykChopin''': Unrelated, we are both on the cover of "Enormous Ego" this week.\
210	'''Music/FranzLiszt:''' Only this week?
211	-->-- ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'', [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=302 "Chopin and Liszt"]]
212
213	->'''Marten:''' Has anyone ever told you you're ''kind of'' a huge asshole?\
214	'''Elizabeth:''' No. Everybody is intimidated by my intellect, so I can say whatever I want and they chalk it up to me being a "misunderstood genius."
215	-->-- ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4987 "ADS/CFT"]]
216	[[/folder]]
217
218	[[folder:Web Original]]
219	-> "I don't believe I'm smarter than anyone else... I KNOW I'm smarter than anyone else."
220	-->--'''Logan''', ''WebVideo/SandersSides''
221
222	->Life is rough for smart kids in school. There's nothing super-heroic about getting your underwear yanked up your ass by meatheads because you can read without moving your lips. Having said that, in any high school, there's always that one smug, self-satisfied smart kid who likes rubbing their big brain in the other kids' faces. Remember how much everyone hated that kid? Okay, now add 'super-intelligence' to your list of powers, where suddenly you can argue foreign policy with Nobel Laureates while doing long division in your head and scribbling a cure for leukemia on a notepad. You're gonna turn into an insufferable jerk faster than you can say, 'Well, I suppose that's a ''simplified way'' of looking at it.' ComicBook/LexLuthor may be a genius, but nobody's inviting his smug ass to their house parties.
223	-->-- ''{{Website/Cracked}}''
224
225	->Despite his age he was a prodigy, but that level of skill at that level of immaturity was bound to cause some arrogance. Luckily he had teammates to rein him in.
226	-->-- ''Lightning Sentai Blitzenger'', describing '''[[TeenGenius Kimura Sanjou]]'''
227
228	->What a curiosity Series/{{The Lone Gunmen}} have turned out to be. I find them a peculiar success despite the fact that I sometimes find them extremely annoying...The only one that I cannot get on with on a regular basis is Langly who strikes me as the worst excesses of geek hood in human form. Every time he opens his mouth I want to [[TalkToTheFist stuff something fist-sized inside]], his mock anger is wearying and I hate the way he always thinks he is right in that pigeon-holed way that geeks do when their dander is up. He’s the sort of person that would hack into government files for something as facile as gaining access to disabled parking areas.
229	-->-- '''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-x-files-season-five.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Unusual Suspects"
230
231	->In any standard crime show, only one character can be a sci-fi geek, and it's usually [[TheLabRat the scientist or lab technician in the group]]. So what do you do when [[Series/{{CSI}} your entire cast is made up of lab technicians?]] ''How do you choose?!?'' Apparently, you make your geek the lab tech who's more pompous and annoying than all of the other lab techs put together. Sure, let's make the smug, superior guy the ''Star Trek''--sorry, "[[BlandNameProduct Astro Quest]]" fan. Clearly, THIS is the guy who would go to conventions in costume, fantasize about his co-workers in ''Astro Quest''-themed scenarios, refer to himself as a "padawan" and name his cat "Kobayashi Maru." Not the hunky lab tech with the smoldering eyes--the dillweed. Stop giving ''Astro Quest'' fans a bad name, Hodges!
232	-->-- '''Blog/ToplessRobot''', [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2012/11/10_tv_geeks_that_give_geeks_a_bad_name.php "10 TV Geeks That Give Geeks a Bad Name"]]
233
234	->You can't just keep using your intelligence as a way to escape your humanity. I didn't ask you to say salt because I thought a customer would seriously care or because I was insecure, I did it because it made you look weird and I was trying to get you to adopt behaviors and use language that makes you come across like a normal fucking person.\
235	Everyone knows what sodium chloride is, but calling it that outside the context of a chemistry class makes you seem like someone who defines themselves solely by their intelligence, which is undeniably who you are.\
236	I know you think there's nothing wrong with being that person, dude, but there is. Taking your IQ and deciding that it elevates you above the rest of the planet is an awful decision that will lead to a life of misery and alienation. It will color every interaction you ever have and make it impossible to have real friends or relationships.
237	-->--[[Memes/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Sodium Chloride but]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur9pmujkZ14 Skeet CLAPS BACK!!]]
238	[[/folder]]
239
240	[[folder:Western Animation]]
241	->''"Try not to let the brilliance overwhelm you."''
242	-->-- '''Kid Flash''', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''
243
244	->''"It's hard to not act like a know-it-all when you actually do know it ''all''."''
245	-->-- '''Jimmy Neutron''', ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius''
246
247	->'''Gyro:''' Shut up everyone! I've done something brilliant!\
248	'''Scrooge:''' Ah, Gyro. ''[to Louie]'' Gyro Gearloose, [[TheSmartGuy my head of research and development.]]\
249	'''Board Member:''' I'm sorry, but we-\
250	'''Gyro:''' Apology accepted. Now try to keep up with my mind-numbing genius.\
251	'''Scrooge:''' Gyro, what did we say about interacting with other people?\
252	'''Gyro:''' The cards. ''[sighs]'' Fine.
253	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S1E3TheGreatDimeChase The Great Dime Chase!]]"
254	[[/folder]]
255
256	[[folder:Real Life]]
257	->''"The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable."''
258	-->-- '''Creator/MarquisDeSade'''
259
260	->''"All of your good qualities become obscured by your super-cleverness and are made useless to the world merely because of your rage at wanting to know everything better than others; of wanting to improve and master what you cannot command. With this you embitter the people around you, since no one wants to be improved in such a forceful way, least of all by such an insignificant individual as you still are. [...] If you were less like you, you would only be ridiculous, but thus as you are, you are highly annoying. Everything I wrote to you is not meant as a reproach, but as an attempt to show you how the world sees you, how even I have to see you, even though my love to you has been proven again and again. Now you have to see for yourself what you deduce of that."''
261	-->-- '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Schopenhauer Johanna Schopenhauer]]''' in a letter to her 19-year-old son [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer Arthur]]
262
263	->''"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated."''
264	-->-- '''Creator/OscarWilde'''
265
266	->''"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that [[GeniusBookClub you can boast about it.]]"''
267	-->-- '''Creator/BertrandRussell'''
268
269	->''"A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race—and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin."''
270	-->-- '''Creator/AynRand'''
271
272	->''""Well, all right, then it could be about whatever you want," they said. "It could be about magic." [[AuthorAppeal I am a bit of a sucker, I suppose, for the old magic.]] Also, I like showing off how brilliant and knowledgeable I am, so I could not resist saying, "Well, if you want to do an opera, and there's a bit of magic, then you should probably do it about UsefulNotes/{{Alchemy}}. Because, actually opera [[UrExample grew out of]] alchemy. [[BaroqueMusic Monteverdi]] was an alchemist." I ''know'' these things, and I really sort of enjoy rubbing people who don't know them's noses in it."''
273	-->-- '''Creator/AlanMoore''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_hsJ6zQO64 on]] being asked to write an opera for the Manchester International Festival.
274
275	->''"In short, at least give the penguin a fair viewing. If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do."''
276	-->-- '''Linus Torvalds'''
277
278	->''"I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter."''
279	-->-- '''Anonymous'''
280
281	->''"People who boast about their IQ are losers."''
282	-->-- '''Creator/StephenHawking''' in a 2004 ''New York Times'' interview
283
284	->''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.'"''
285	-->-- '''John R. Searle''' on Jacques Derrida
286
287	->''"Intelligence is fine. But social skills, hard work, and perseverance carry you farther. Rather than being the smartest person in the room, be the person that others want in the room."''
288	-->-- '''Ruben Navarrete Jr.''', ''The Daily Beast'', "[[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]]"
289	[[/folder]]

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