No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:a) people whom one had once ju…

- Carlo M. Cipolla

...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

- Carlo M. Cipolla

Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there…

- Carlo M. Cipolla

As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.

- Carlo M. Cipolla

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring l…

- Carlo M. Cipolla

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

- Carlo M. Cipolla

The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of …

- Carlo M. Cipolla

Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of the…

- Carlo M. Cipolla