Carlo M Cipolla Inspirational Quotes (4)

...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.

The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.