""You think you're so smart" is never a compliment; the only thing worse than being smart is thinking that you are."

"Nerds do not think they are better than you. Nerds are better than you, in their particular fields, unless you happen…"

"Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909."

"Why clog your head with tedious facts about the past when you can simply demand an exam review sheet or consult Googl…"

"When we valorize ignorance and debase reason, we diminish man and the humanity that dwells within him, to bum an old …"

"We are not the adults in the sense that Kant intended, but adolescents. This is a problem, because we are the world's…"

"All we really need to do is learn 'em so they don't frig up the cash register or offend the customers."

"If there is no more market for ancient Greek, there should be no more ancient Greek. If there are no jobs for histori…"

"The panic over public health care is funny and sad, since America has had death panels and sinister bureaucrats for y…"

"Bankers grovelled before the governments they usually revile, like wispy poets whining for grant money. They got bill…"