Quotes with idiots

  • Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
  • Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Quotes 1 till 20 of 24.

1 2 Next 
  • Arthur Schopenhauer Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
    - +
    +8
  • Rich Cook Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
    - +
    +2
  • Martin Farquhar Tupper Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
    - +
    +1
  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
    - +
    +1
  • Billy Higgins Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
    - +
     0
  • Basil Bunting But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
    - +
     0
  • Karl Kraus Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
    - +
     0
  • John Lennon I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
    - +
     0
  • George Bernard Shaw Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
    The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • C. Wright Mills If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
    The British Journal of Sociology Structure of Power in America, Vol. 9 (March 1958)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
    - +
     0
  • Mark Twain In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Mark Twain In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Harry Mathews Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
    - +
     0
  • Gustave Flaubert Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
    - +
     0
  • Richard Neville Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.
    - +
     0
  • Rebecca West The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • Marquis de Sade The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
    - +
     0
  • Alfred Jarry The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
    - +
     0
  • William Blake To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
    - +
     0
  • Bruce McCulloch To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
    - +
     0
1 2 Next 
All idiots famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com