“I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!”
“Antinerd and antigeek prejudices are tolerated because they are seen as harmless, but they are not. They are bad for children, and they might be bad for our society as a whole, because they are recent incarnations of a very old American disease: anti-intellectualism. And anti-intellectualism, as I will argue, is very bad for children and even worse for our society as a whole.”
“Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.”
“When you argue with someone, you always argue at the level of the person with the lowest level of intelligence. You never argue up.”
“Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.”