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When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

It doesn't bother me that people are stupid. I'm not stupid.

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.