“You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice”
“Not smart. Happily stupid. Stupidly happy.”
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”
“Stupidity is a relevant term and it is relevant to the owner of the stupid brain. Smartness is an irrelevant term and it is irrelevant to the owner of the smart brain because even the smart people can do and say stupid things.”
“Smart stupid. Stupid smart.”
“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.”