We're just too nosy, Commander," he went on. "Most humans have their patience level set a little too low, and their curiosity a bit too high. - Charles Sheffield

Lop the top-end tail off the distribution of human intelligence and creativity," he went on, "and it would make no measurable difference to the population. Only one person in a billion is out beyond the six-sigma level. That's what we're talking about here. But eventually those one-in-a-billion make a huge difference. Ninety-five percent of all human progress comes from less than one thousandth of one percent of the population.

You crazy? You’ve got me confused with a guy who cares about other people.

In the old words of wisdom, you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, and that’s usually enough to get by.