טיפשות היא היעדר ההיגיון, כיוון שחשיכה היא היעדר האור, והרוע הוא היעדר הטוב. משמעות החיים האנושיים היא האבולוציה מאפס לאחת. הספר בוחן את טבעו של המוח ואת הסיבות להיעדרו. דן בתכונות ובמאפיינים של טיפשות, בתסמינים ובהשלכות הנוראיות.
מצד שני, טיפשות היא גנרטור מספרים אקראי, מקור של חידוש ותקוות טיפשיות. טיפשות יכולה אפילו להרוג פחד ועצלנות. הספר יגיד לך למה אתה צריך טיפשות, ואיך זה יכול לשמש לטובת המקרה.
The advice of the clever is proud and formulaic; the advice of the foolish is ignorant and unexpected. In fact, both are nonsense, terribly far from life, but if they are combined, the truth is born.
Stupidity and ignorance are beautiful. Misunderstood the basic truth, they prove it from another point of view, so polishing another facet of the diamond of truth. The process continues as long as the truth does not turn into a perfect sphere.
Foolishness and lies are the mechanisms that allow paradoxes to exist. There are a lot of things that shouldn't exist, but they do exist because of foolishness or lies.
Since I do not know a greater fool than myself, I have the great honor of being the standard fool. I am surrounded on all sides by ideal people, full of advantages and pluses. Alas, I am not, the only thing I could achieve perfection in was stupidity.
It is known that every creature has a pair or higher. In search of kindred spirits, I wrote an encyclopedia of reference stupidity. Friends, I am so sad and lonely, if someone sees in me a kindred spirit and wants to be friends with me, I will be insanely happy.
A wonderful occupational stupidity, great underqualification and a simple amazing universal human poverty of intellect... all of the mentioned makes our world unique and unpredictable. If there were no problems or no stupidity, smart people would get deprived of the reasons to apply their mental abilities and would degenerate so that the world would lapse back into stone age...