idiot quotes

The computer is a fast idiot, it has no imagination; it cannot originate action. It is, and will remain, only a tool to man.

-American LibraryAssociation
  Statement of the  American Library Association regarding the Univac computer exhibited at the NewYork World's Fair, 1964.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

- Salvador Dal| 
  Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, preface.

'If the law supposes that,'said Mr Bumble†'the law is a assa idiot.'

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^9  Oliver Twist, ch.51.

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

- Leo Durocher
  Attributed.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own; And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy, And who'doesn't think she dances, but would rather like to try'; And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist I don't think she'd be missedI'm sure she'd not be missed!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Ko-Ko's song, The Mikado, act1.

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

- Sir (Francis) Osbert Sitwell
  The ScarletTree, bk.4, ch.2.