"One of the most baffling paradoxes of history is that all our intelligence and even our genius have never succeeded in solving a problem when pitches against Stupidity, where the very nature of the problem is, precisely, what intelligence should find particularly easy to handle. Stupidity has a tremendous advantage over genius and intellect:
• it is above logic
• above argument
• it has no need for evidence, facts, reasoning,
• it is unshakable,
• beyond doubts,
• supremely self-confident,
• it always knows all the answers,
• it looks at the world with a knowing smile
• it has a fantastic capacity for survival,
it is the greatest force known to man."
(Roman Gary in "White Dog")
((Im Grunde aber ist es schlicht "42!"))