First Law: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
Second Law: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
Third Law: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Fourth Law: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
Susan Hill: Perhaps there will be nothing but a great void, nothing within us, and nothing outside of us either. Terrifying. Let's drown our fears out with some noise, quickly.
Decius: Stupid people like stupid black and white choices. They are blinded by their convictions.
Q&A with Slavoj Zizek: What makes you depressed? Seeing stupid people happy.
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity |