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{{cquote|The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

—Isaac Asimov}}

{{cquote|researchers...found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.

—Boston Globe{{cite news |author=Joe Keohane |title=How facts backfire|newspaper=Boston Globe|publisher=Globe Newspaper Company |year=2010 }}}}

{{cquote|the poor [in America] see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

—John Steinbeck{{cite book |author=Wright, Ronald |title=A Short History of Progress | year=2005 |page=124}}}}

{{cquote|I've been on food stamps and welfare. Did anyone help *me* out?! No!

—Craig T. Nelson{{cite web | first=Craig T. | last=Nelson |title=Glenn Beck Program | publisher=Fox News |date=May 28th, 2009 | url=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_07/the_craig_t_nelson_problem030622.php}}}}

{{cquote|An October 2000 Time-CNN news poll showed that 19 percent of Americans thought that they were in the high income group that would benefit from proposed tax cuts - defined as roughly the top 1 percent of the distribution.{{cite web | first=Carol | last=Graham | first2=H. Peyton |last2=Young |title=Ignorance Fills the Income Gulf | publisher=The Brookings Institution |date=June 23, 2003 | url=http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2003/0623useconomics_graham.aspx}}}}

{{cquote|Mortensen's passion for safeguarding the elaborate fantasy world in which his conception of the [U.S.] Constitution resides is greatly respected by his likeminded friends and relatives, many of whom have been known to repeat his unfounded assertions verbatim when angered.{{cite web|publisher=Onion Inc|work=The Onion|title=Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be|date=November 14, 2009|url=http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-c,2849/}}}}

{{cquote|“civilized” types can pontificate loudly about the evils of war online only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

—paraphrased George Orwell}}

{{cquote|On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

—Charles Babbage{{cite book |author=Campbell-Kelly, Martin; Babbage, Charles |title=Passages from the Life of a Philosopher |publisher=Pickering & Chatto Publishers |year=1994 |chapter=V Difference Engine No. 1 |page=67 |isbn=1-85196-040-6}}}}

{{cquote|The Wikipedia philosophy can be summed up thusly: "Experts are scum." For some reason people who spend 40 years learning everything they can about, say, the Peloponnesian War -- and indeed, advancing the body of human knowledge -- get all pissy when their contributions are edited away by Randy in Boise who heard somewhere that sword-wielding skeletons were involved. And they get downright irate when asked politely to engage in discourse with Randy until the sword-skeleton theory can be incorporated into the article without passing judgment.

—Lore Sjöberg{{cite web|url=http://www.wired.com/software/webservices/commentary/alttext/2006/04/70670 | title=The Wikipedia FAQK | work=Wired |date=April 2006}}image:Skeleton-warrior.jpg}}

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