"Humor is a great way to get beyond stupidity," said Nadia Khiari, known as Willis from Tunis.
"Taking money from them and them not realising sometimes made me feel that their aura of superiority masked a reality of almost stupidity," says De-Laurey.
"The importance of succeeding in science is the ability to embrace your stupidity," said Dan Herschlag, PhD, senior associate dean of graduate education and postdoctoral affairs, speaking to the crowd of about 120 diners in the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning & Knowledge.
"I'd love to say it's this big, machiavellian plan, but the main thing to blame is human stupidity," says Phillip Adcock, author of Shoppology: The Science of Supermarket Shopping.
"This is, I'm afraid, either wilfully deceptive or just stupidity," said Colin Butler, professor of public health at the University of Canberra.
"It's just such an awful building that the only reason to keep it would be as a monument to stupidity," said Mark Wigley, the dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
"The Brotherhood had a degree of political stupidity," says Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a former Brotherhood big beast who ran against Morsi in 2011, and was once considered the election's frontrunner.
For example, a process called glide deletion which makes two vowels sound like one lengthens the "i" in "pie" across the region.Loose grammar and indulgent vowels mean the southern accent is often associated with stupidity, says Jennifer Cramer of the University of Kentucky.
National security has become "a universal way to push through all sorts of stupidity", says Tatiana Lysova, Vedomosti's editor.Greed masquerading as patriotic duty may also explain the troubles of Vladimir Yevtushenkov, the billionaire boss of Sistema, a holding company, who now finds himself under house arrest.
