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Remember “Fiddler on the roof” and Tuvia the milkman singing? It is the privilege of losers and nobodys to fantasize how they would do everything better if only they were rich or famous, had power or ran a global Internet brand.

Watching Sergey Brin talks about Google’s China (non) decision at TED, the thought crossed my mind that – if I were to found google – the one thing I’d do is to change the motto from “Don’t be Evil” to “Don’t be stupid”.

Ok, I’d mainly do that because I have no clue how to do any of the other things Brin does, but also because stupidity, after all, is a much more wide-spread problem than actual evil. Stupidity is,  for instance, not seeing reality as it is, which can lead one to false assumptions and unrealistic expectation (such as expectations for regime change or radical change of policy where there are going to be none).

“Don’t be stupid” – I kind of like this motto, altough it is not likely to become very popular.