“I underestimated your laziness.” “It’s pronounced intelligence, Kirk.”

“Never underestimate your listener's intelligence, or overestimate you listener's information.”

“No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”

“Somebody once said that all people are either intelligent or stupid, and either lazy or enterprising. There are lazy idiots, usually irrelevant and innocuous; then there are the intelligent and ambitious, who can be given important tasks to perform. The greatest achievements, in all fields, are nearly always the work of those intelligent and lazy. But one thing should be kept in mind: the most dangerous category, the people who are unfailingly responsible for the most appalling disasters, the ones you have to avoid at all costs, are enterprising idiots.”

“Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.”

“Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.”