Stupidity got us into this mess; why can't it get us out?

-- T. Jewel (jetav8r@theglobe.com), November 28, 1999

Answers

never attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by stupidity.- R.Heinlein

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), November 28, 1999.

This one is for Y2k Pro: The road to hell is paved with good intentions!

-- xman (xman@aol.com), November 28, 1999.

It's better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain (?)

-- The Whistler (I'm Here, I'm There, I'm Everywhere@so.beware), November 28, 1999.

A description of reading one of pro_zacs comments:

"It's kinda like stamp collecting...without the stamps."

-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), November 28, 1999.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of ots victims may be the most oppresive. It may be better to live under robber baron's then under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some time be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

-- God Is Just..You''ll see (not@now.com), November 28, 1999.

"People who live in glasshouses shouldn't." Immanuel Kant

-- xyz (a@b.c), November 28, 1999.

"...that's ironic, I've heard that Herstatt risk could be the ral turd, in the Y2K punchbowl."

-- evianplease (karlacalif@aol.com), November 28, 1999.

"We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at stars."

Thanks for everything Flint, Decker, Cherri, Andy, & Y2KPRO.

-- (Ladylogic@aol.com), November 28, 1999.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

-- HERB (herb01@prodigy.net), November 28, 1999.

There are two things that universal, hydrogen and stupidity. Anon

-- LM (latemarch@usa.net), November 28, 1999.

"There are three kinds of people--those who can count and those who can't."

-- Ann M. (hismckids@aol.com), November 28, 1999.

Just because your paranoid doesnt mean nobody is after you.

-- bob cobhead (noname@usa.net), November 28, 1999.

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact" - George Eliot

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), November 29, 1999.

stupid is as stupid does...

-- forrest (forrest@gump.com), November 29, 1999.

Here ya go, LM. "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." --- Harlan Ellison

It may have been inspired by this one. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not even sure about the universe." ---Albert Einstein

Along with Whistler, I like the classics. "Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider." -- Mark Twain

-- (Quotemeister@Bartlett's.net), November 29, 1999.

"Great sprits have always encountered violent opposition, from mediocre minds" Einstein

Be a Great Sprit.

BLUE

-- BLUE (bluefish@thepond.com), November 29, 1999.