quote of the day (August 25, 2008): the idiot edition

Well, we're without an obvious topic for this week's quotes now that the Olympics have completed. The Democratic National Convention begins today in Denver, but QOTD is non-partisan (non-)entertainment, so we're going to steer away from that one.

Sometimes, when you're upset to back at your crappy job on a Monday, you're bound to wonder how there are so many idiots in the world. Luckily, with advice from Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) from The Office, you can avoiding joining their number:

"Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?' And if they would, I do notdo that thing."

Male models: dying in freak gasoline accident? Idiots.

Here's another comment on the idiots of the world, from German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."

Goethe: not an idiot.