Terry Pratchett Quotes About Stupidity

Quotes about: Stupidity

• The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Squares, Roots, Numbers

• Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Stupidity, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.215, Random House

• Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided that it was because, imprisoned in the priceless, inquiring amber of Leonard's massive mind, underneath that bright investigative genius was a kind of willful innocence that might in lesser men be called stupidity. It was the seat and soul of that force which, down the millennia, had caused mankind to stick its fingers in the electric light socket of the Universe and play with the switch to see what happened - and then be very surprised when it did.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Light, Play

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