Carlo M. Cipolla Quotes
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
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.
...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.
As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.