He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid.

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!

Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!" "If you can count to two, you can count to anything!" "If I can count to two, I can count to anything!" "And then the world is your mollusc!" "My mollusc! What's a mollusc?

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.