I can also, from personal observation, support the conclusion that if you REALLY want to screw anything up, you need to put it in the hands of people who think like this: "I am so smart I make myself sick."
Smart as a whip does, all too often, translates into dumb as a hoe handle in the real world. I've seen that, too, at many institutions and in many eras.
Congressman Billybob
Real smart people understand that there is lot more that they don’t know, than what they do know.