"Trust me, I've seen enough history to know that even people who study it usually end up rather ignorant," he told her. Also, people were always finding new ways to be stupid, so not all of them were filtered out by history.

"And most people get by just fine without knowing a whole lot of history. So unless you want to be a history teacher, you're probably okay. Unless you start serving history themed meals, and then someone wants a Bunker Hill special and you have to remember the short order cook writes it as July 15, 1775."