“You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite affect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.” PeopleKnowsEffectsStupidTvsOppositesSouthernAccentsComplete OppositesSouthern Accent Author:DJ Qualls
“Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.” EnoughMightEffectsStupidGeniusStupidityBrilliantSuspects Author:Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
“When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?” PeopleIfsKnowsKidsYoungMotherEffectsStupidDumbLazyNever ChangeRetardedDyslexia Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.” MenGreaterEffectsStupidFieldsElementsIntelligentSurpriseStupidityIntelligent ManDiffusionStupid MenElement Of Surprise Author:Peter Ustinov
“Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the 'spirits' of things. A few years back, my wife was frustrated with the same old stupid sound effects tape we would play, which ends with the theme from 'Ghostbusters' and 'Monster Mash'. I told her that Halloween is way too cool a holiday to suffer through this every year.” WayYearsEndsPlaySpiritSufferingHouseSoundWifeEffectsStupidHugeMy WifeMonstersThemeHolidayTapeFrustratedHalloweenToo CoolSound Effects Author:Dee Snider
“Even with the most stupid video games, kids learn more about learning than they ever did before, because they want to learn codes and moves before other kids figure them out. They're motivated to seek out someone or search the Net for help. A student who makes a video game has to solve mathematical problems to make special effects happen on the screen.” WantHelpingProblemHappensKidsMovingGamesSpecialEffectsStupidFiguresStudentsSolveScreensVideoMathematicalCodeMotivatedSpecial EffectsMathematical Problems Author:Seymour Papert
“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.” MenHumansWholeLife IsUnderstandingLosesSimpleEffectsStupidHabitExerciseCreaturesFindingsDifficultyWhole LifeInventionIgnorantOccasionsOperationsPerformingExertionWealth Of Nations Book:The Wealth of Nations (illustrated) Source: The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)