History Quotes / TheyCalledMeMad

->From earliest childhood you were ridiculed and ostracized by your so-called "peers" - sniveling cretins who refused to recognize your genius. Your classmates, your teachers, your family, the whole damnable human species - all of them mocked you, taunted you, belittled you. Curled up in your parents basement, with ''[[CharlesDarwin The Origin of Species]]'' under one arm and ''[[Literature/WhereTheWildThingsAre Where The Wild Things Are]]'' under the other, you vowed to show them all. You grew up and received your doctorate in genetics. But were you respected? Did a Nobel Prize adorn your dingy little campus cubicle? Were the fruits of your labors lauded in the halls of science? No, oh no. "Crackpot," they called you. "Half-baked," they called your ideas. "Professor Bug-Eyes," they whispered behind your back. But you were right. There were monsters in the world, and you would find them. You would be their tyrant king!

-->-- '''[[EvilGenius Doctor]] [[BigBad Impossible]]''', ''SoonIWillBeInvincible''

->The reason we don’t believe Ray is correct is because our educational system [[ConspiracyTheorist is a conspiracy to make us stupid]]. Ray knows. He is the wisest person in the universe -- at least he repeatedly asserts so on his websites and when “explaining” the hypothesis (often instead of explaining the hypothesis, in fact).

->There’s a huge clue in the book ''The Man who Heard Voices'', which is devoted to the production of ''Film/LadyInTheWater''. The book covers, in great detail, how blown away Night is by a Disney executive who unthinkably failed to ‘get’ his script, and the soul-searching, sweaty-sheeted introspection about just what was wrong with other people, that they couldn’t see how incredible his story was.

->"I AM NOT MAD!" cried Zarkendorf, his eyes bulging madly. "For years people like you laughed at my name! They called me a nerd — they said I should get out of my mother's basement and get a life! I swore that one day I would make them all pay! The world will soon tremble at the name Heinrich Dorfmenstein Zarkendorf!\\

-->-- '''CarlSagan'''

->What is the time cube theory? It is a little hard to say, but it has something to do with [[TimeyWimeyBall the world passing through four simultaneous days in the course of a day.] ]The reason we don’t believe Ray is correct, is because our educational system [[ConspiracyTheorist is a conspiracy to make us stupid]]. Ray knows. He is the wisest person in the universe -- at least he repeatedly asserts so on his websites and when “explaining” the hypothesis (often instead of explaining the hypothesis, in fact).

->There was only one bridge left for [[Creator/KeithOlbermann Olbermann]] to burn this year, and when it was time for him to alienate himself from Current TV, he did it in classic Olbermann fashion, bitching about broken promises and writing frantic missives to anyone who dared accuse him of being less than a perfect little angel while working at Current. But don't feel bad for Keith. He's now free to live the life he's always dreamed of: taping "Special Comment" segments from his own toilet and descending into a permanent state of manic paranoia. Why can't this happen to [[FoxNewsChannel Hannity]], too?
-->--'''[[http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201212/least-influential-people-2012#slide=12 Drew Magary]]''' on Guy Fieri, "The 25 Least Influential People of 2012"

->Galileo? Václav Havel? Wakefield surely does have an [[SmallNameBigEgo inflated view of himself!]] Next he’ll be comparing himself to Gandhi or Martin Luther King.
-->--'''[[http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/02/01/the-martyrdom-of-st-andy/ Orac]]''', "The Martyrdom of St. Andy"

->Shirley shouldn’t have told him to go and fuck himself. Music/KanyeWest makes sweet love to everything Kanye West does, so he [[InsultBackfire doesn’t need more encouragement]]....I can’t fully get high off of Shirley’s response without seeing Kanye’s email which probably looks something like this: ''“[=YOU JUST JEALOUS GARBAGE GIRL BECAUSE I HAVE MORE HITS THAN GOD. KANYE WEST X ADIDAS YEEZY F/W 2015!!!!&!!!”=]''
-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2015/03/09/shirley-manson-goes-off-again-on-someone-who-is-probably-kanye/ Michael K.]]''', "[[Music/{{Garbage}} Shirley Manson]] Goes Off Again On Someone Who Is Probably Kanye"

->Gene Ray is a legend... He is most famous for inventing the Time Cube Theory, and even put up the legendary Time Cube website back in 1997.\\\
What is the time cube theory? It is a little hard to say, but it has something to do with [[TimeyWimeyBall the world passing through four simultaneous days in the course of a day. ]]The reason we don’t believe Ray is correct, is because our educational system [[ConspiracyTheorist is a conspiracy to make us stupid]]. Ray knows. He is the wisest person in the universe -- at least he repeatedly asserts so on his websites and when “explaining” the hypothesis (often instead of explaining the hypothesis, in fact).
-->--''[[http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/05/332-gene-ray.html Encyclopedia of American Loons]]''

->...this hearing was nothing less than a battle of the good Saint Andy versus Big Pharma Evil, and its verdict proof positive that [[ConspiracyTheory the pharma conspiracy to “poison” children with vaccines]] was taking its vengeance on poor, poor Andy for speaking truth to power...Of course, Wakefield’s vision of himself as a brave Galileo persecuted by the forces of dogmatism is nothing new. He pulled that gambit right after the GMC [[BackAlleyDoctor Fitness to Practise]] Panel Hearing began in July 2007, likening himself to Václav Havel, the playwright turned political activist in Czechoslovakia who spent several terms in prison for his political activities opposing its Soviet-style Communist government in the 1970s and 1980s and ultimately played a major role in the VelvetRevolution of 1989 that led to the bloodless overthrow of Communism.\\\
Galileo? Václav Havel? Wakefield surely does have an [[SmallNameBigEgo inflated view of himself!]] Next he’ll be comparing himself to Gandhi or Martin Luther King.

->Shirley shouldn’t have told him to go and fuck himself. Music/KanyeWest makes sweet love to everything Kanye West does, so he [[InsultBackfire doesn’t need more encouragement]]....I can’t fully get high off of Shirley’s response without seeing Kanye’s email which probably looks something like this: ''“[[=YOU JUST JEALOUS GARBAGE GIRL BECAUSE I HAVE MORE HITS THAN GOD. KANYE WEST X ADIDAS YEEZY F/W 2015!!!!&!!!”=]''

->I AM NOT MAD!" cried Zarkendorf, his eyes bulging madly. "For years people like you laughed at my name! They called me a nerd — they said I should get out of my mother's basement and get a life! I swore that one day I would make them all pay! The world will soon tremble at the name Heinrich Dorfmenstein Zarkendorf!\\\
''"Yeah; probably at the thought of having to spell it," said Buster.

->Gene Ray, born Otis Eugene Ray, is a former electrician and inventor who actively promoted [[ManChild the game of marbles]]. Sometime after losing his own, he created the idea and the website for Time Cube in August 1997. He proclaimed himself a Doctor of Cubism and Wisest Human in December 2002 and has since been going on a steady downhill slope...He has promised $10,000 to {{Wikipedia}}, or the first academic or just anyone who could refute the Time Cube theory, citing the wager at least 6 times on the main page. He is, of course, [[DecidedByOneVote the only judge for that particular wager.]] He speaks with the same incoherency as he writes. It's entirely possible he has actual medical brain damage... but the Internet has [[PoesLaw desensitized people to insanity on such a level]] this is usually not considered.
-->--'''''Wiki/RationalWiki'''''

->To the anti-vaccine cranks at ''[=AoA=]'', this hearing was nothing less than a battle of the good Saint Andy versus Big Pharma Evil, and its verdict proof positive that [[ConspiracyTheory the pharma conspiracy to “poison” children with vaccines]] was taking its vengeance on poor, poor Andy for speaking truth to power. As it became clear that, finally after all this time, the GMC was on the verge of announcing its ruling, I noticed that the ''[=AoA=]'' ramped up an increasingly bizarre and unhinged last minute propaganda campaign, complete with a hilariously inapt post by Mark Blaxill comparing Wakefield to Galileo and the GMC to the Inquisition and [[GodwinsLaw containing references to Stalin and Mao]] (I suppose I should be relieved that Blaxill refrained from playing the Hitler card)...Of course, Wakefield’s vision of himself as a brave Galileo persecuted by the forces of dogmatism is nothing new. He pulled that gambit right after the GMC Fitness to Practise Panel Hearing began in July 2007, likening himself to Václav Havel, the playwright turned political activist in Czechoslovakia who spent several terms in prison for his political activities opposing its Soviet-style Communist government in the 1970s and 1980s and ultimately played a major role in the VelvetRevolution of 1989 that led to the bloodless overthrow of Communism.\\\

Galileo? Václav Havel? Wakefield surely does have an inflated view of himself! Next he’ll be comparing himself to Gandhi or Martin Luther King. a defense of “that paper” by Wakefield himself; claims that parent witnesses had been “silenced” at the GMC hearings...Galileo? Václav Havel? Wakefield surely does [[SmallNameBigEgo have an inflated view of himself!]] Next he’ll be comparing himself to Gandhi or Martin Luther King.

->That is the true legacy of Andrew Wakefield: The resurgence of a once-defeated vaccine-preventable disease, with all the attendant suffering its return brought with it. Truly, few people can be said to have done more harm to public health in a nation than Andrew Wakefield did in the U.K. with his incompetent, unethical, callous research...True to form, the [[ScienceIsBad anti-vaccine propaganda blog]] ''Age of Autism'' leapt to Andrew Wakefield’s defense using apocalyptic imagery. To the anti-vaccine cranks at ''[=AoA=]'', this hearing was nothing less than a battle of the good Saint Andy versus Big Pharma Evil, and its verdict proof positive that [[ConspiracyTheory the pharma conspiracy to “poison” children with vaccines]] was taking its vengeance on poor, poor Andy for speaking truth to power. As it became clear that, finally after all this time, the GMC was on the verge of announcing its ruling, I noticed that the ''[=AoA=]'' ramped up an increasingly bizarre and unhinged last minute propaganda campaign, complete with a hilariously inapt post by Mark Blaxill comparing Wakefield to Galileo and the GMC to the Inquisition and [[GodwinsLaw containing references to Stalin and Mao]] (I suppose I should be relieved that Blaxill refrained from playing the Hitler card)...Of course, Wakefield’s vision of himself as a brave Galileo persecuted by the forces of dogmatism is nothing new. He pulled that gambit right after the GMC Fitness to Practise Panel Hearing began in July 2007, likening himself to Václav Havel, the playwright turned political activist in Czechoslovakia who spent several terms in prison for his political activities opposing its Soviet-style Communist government in the 1970s and 1980s and ultimately played a major role in the VelvetRevolution of 1989 that led to the bloodless overthrow of Communism.\\\

->That is the true legacy of Andrew Wakefield: The resurgence of a once-defeated vaccine-preventable disease, with all the attendant suffering its return brought with it. Truly, few people can be said to have done more harm to public health in a nation than Andrew Wakefield did in the U.K. with his incompetent, unethical, callous research...True to form, the [[ScienceIsBad anti-vaccine propaganda blog]] ''Age of Autism'' leapt to Andrew Wakefield’s defense using apocalyptic imagery. To the anti-vaccine cranks at ''[=AoA=]'', this hearing was nothing less than a battle of the good Saint Andy versus Big Pharma Evil, and its verdict proof positive that [[ConspiracyTheory the pharma conspiracy to “poison” children with vaccines]] was taking its vengeance on poor, poor Andy for speaking truth to power. As it became clear that, finally after all this time, the GMC was on the verge of announcing its ruling, I noticed that the ''[=AoA=]'' ramped up an increasingly bizarre and unhinged last minute propaganda campaign, complete with a hilariously inapt post by Mark Blaxill comparing Wakefield to Galileo and the GMC to the Inquisition and [[GodwinsLaw containing references to Stalin and Mao]] (I suppose I should be relieved that Blaxill refrained from playing the Hitler card); a defense of “that paper” by Wakefield himself; claims that parent witnesses had been “silenced” at the GMC hearings...Galileo? Václav Havel? Wakefield surely does [[SmallNameBigEgo have an inflated view of himself!]] Next he’ll be comparing himself to Gandhi or Martin Luther King.

!!!Fiction
->''"Why do they still call me a warlord? And "mad"? All I want to do is [[IResembleThatRemark create the perfect genetic soldier!]]"''

->''"Oh, mad, am I? Yes, that's what they all say, hee hee hee! But I'll show you who's mad! Yes! For when I rule the world, then you'll see who's mad! '''Yes!'''"''

->''"I wanted things I saw only dimly— [[ScienceCocktail fluids]] [[TechnicolorScience that]] [[SicklyGreenGlow glowed]], and electricity that danced like a living thing. [[AccidentalInnuendo I wanted science inside of me]], [[ProfessorGuineaPig changing me, my body as a generator, as a reactor, a crucible.]] Transformation, transcendence. And so, of course, TheyCalledMeMad. They laughed at me, and that I would never forgive and forget. I would, to use the old phrase, show them."''

->''"Some call me mad, but I much prefer [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs 'Dr. Cranium'.]]"''
-->-- '''Dr. Cranium'''[[note]]Who later insists he's not mad. A bit perturbed about the world situation and how he gets so little respect, perhaps. But certainly not mad![[/note]] ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV: Shadows of Darkness''

->''"I AM NOT MAD!" cried Zarkendorf, his eyes bulging madly. "For years people like you laughed at my name! They called me a nerd — they said I should get out of my mother's basement and get a life! I swore that one day I would make them all pay! The world will soon tremble at the name Heinrich Dorfmenstein Zarkendorf!"''\\
''"Yeah; probably at the thought of having to spell it," said Buster.''

->''"They say madness runs in our family. Some even dared call me mad. Do you know why? Because I dared to dream of creating a race of atomic monsters, atomic supermen! With octagonal shaped bodies that suck-"'' [unintelligible gibberish] ''"- with straws..."''

!!!RealLife
->''"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton[[note]]Inventor of the first commercially successful steamship[[/note]], they laughed at the Wright Brothers. [[SoWasX But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.]]"''

->''"White doesn't necessarily practice film criticism, although what he writes is almost always based on his real or imagined characterization of what other critics have already written. The movie itself sometimes gets lost in White's [[TalkativeLoon internal monologue]] as he rages against [[ConspiracyTheorist some chimerical critical consensus]]."''

->''"Gene Ray, born Otis Eugene Ray, is a former electrician and inventor who actively promoted the game of marbles. Sometime after losing his own, he created the idea and the website for Time Cube in August 1997. He proclaimed himself a Doctor of Cubism and Wisest Human in December 2002 and has since been going on a steady downhill slope...He has promised $10,000 to {{Wikipedia}}, or the first academic or just anyone who could refute the Time Cube theory, citing the wager at least 6 times on the main page. He is, of course, the only judge for that particular wager. He speaks with the same incoherency as he writes. It's entirely possible he has actual medical brain damage... but the Internet has [[PoesLaw desensitized people to insanity on such a level]] this is usually not considered."''
-->--'''''RationalWiki'''''

->''"I AM NOT MAD!" cried Zarkendorf, his eyes bulging madly. "For years people like you laughed at my name! They called me a nerd — they said I should get out of my mother's basement and get a life! I swore that one day I would make them all pay! The world will soon tremble at the name Heinrich Dorfmenstein Zarkendorf!"''
->''"Yeah; probably at the thought of having to spell it," said Buster.''

->''"Andrew Wakefield is a British former physician and medical researcher and is one of the originators of the modern anti-vaccine movement. He is best known for his fraudulent study alleging a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. Once the massive methodological and ethical flaws in this paper came to light, the Lancet rejected it about as hard as Jehovah rejected Lucifer. Like Lucifer, the paper has spawned a vast number of [[ConspiracyTheorist evil and stupid minions bent on destroying the world.]]"''

->"I AM NOT MAD!" cried Zarkendorf, his eyes bulging madly. "For years people like you laughed at my name! They called me a nerd — they said I should get out of my mother's basement and get a life! I swore that one day I would make them all pay! The world will soon tremble at the name Heinrich Dorfmenstein Zarkendorf!"
->"Yeah; probably at the thought of having to spell it," said Buster.''

->''"I AM NOT MAD!" cried Zarkendorf, his eyes bulging madly. "For years people like you laughed at my name! They called me a nerd — they said I should get out of my mother's basement and get a life! I swore that one day I would make them all pay! The world will soon tremble at the name Heinrich Dorfmenstein Zarkendorf!"

->''"I AM NOT MAD!" cried Zarkendorf, his eyes bulging madly. "For years people like you laughed at my name! They called me a nerd — they said I should get out of my mother's basement and get a life! I swore that one day I would make them all pay! The world will soon tremble at the name Heinrich Dorfmenstein Zarkendorf!"\\

->''"White doesn't necessarily practice film criticism, although what he writes is almost always based on his real or imagined characterization of what other critics have already written. The movie itself sometimes gets lost in White's [[GrumpyOldMan internal monologue]] as he rages against [[OldMediaAreEvil some chimerical critical consensus]]."''

-->--'''''RationalWiki'''''