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The Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I completely know how to do that; I can solve that problem,and then I'd be like, 'Mom?

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

We were a stronger team than they were. I thought we were a little tentative at times, but halfway through first set the guys played smart tennis. The last set scores were pretty convincing.

We were trying to make a movie that was funny, but also trying to be smart about being funny. We just wanted to make people laugh,. If you want to make a comedy you just don't want to hit people in the groin for two hours, even though that's really funny too. We wanted our jokes to have a little weight to them.

We were trying to do that with Battle Mountain, and I think we needed to slow it down. We weren't being smart with our passes.

The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights And you're probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It's just that simple.

Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better

I'm right, and you're smart, and sooner or later you'll see I'm right.