IMR

“First they fascinate the fools then they muzzle the intelligent.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov