Robert Yeo
Overview
Robert Yeo is a Singaporean
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

 poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

 and novelist.
Yeo is a retired lecturer of the National Institute of Education and Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Technological University is one of the two largest public universities in Singapore with the biggest campus in Singapore and the world's largest engineering college. Its lush 200-hectare Yunnan Garden campus was the Youth Olympic Village of the world's first 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in...

. At present he is a teacher of Creative Writing at the Singapore Management University
Singapore Management University
The Singapore Management University was officially incorporated on January 12, 2000, and was Singapore's first private university funded by the government...

. He received the Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

Public Service Medal in 1991 for services to drama.

He has published four poetry collections: "Coming Home Baby" (1971); "Napalm Does Not Work" (1977), "A Part of Three" (1989) and "Leaving Home, Mother" (1999) and has been included in several anthologies, including "Five Takes" (1974).

His venture into novel writing resulted in a sole book: "The Adventures of Holden Heng" (1986) about the sexual education of its anti-hero.

Yeo has written six plays: Are You There, Singapore? (1974), One Year Back Home (1980), Second Chance (1988), The Eye of History (1991), Changi (1996) and Your Bed is your Coffin.
Quotations

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.

Ali, A Hundred Sayings

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

Thomas Carlyle, Rectorial Address at Edinburgh, 2nd April 1886

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, 1950

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Robert J. Hanlon, Murphy's Law book two: More reasons why things go wrong! (1980) ISBN 0843106743 by Arthur Bloch|Arthur Bloch page 52.  

"Folly is as great as the sea. It can compass anything."

Antef, Nomarch|Nomarch of Thebes, Egypt|Thebes, in Bolesław Prus's novel Pharaoh (novel)|Pharaoh (1895), chapter 61.

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.

Ed Solomon|Ed Solomon, screenplay, Men in Black

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, Pt. ii

Weapons-Grade Stupidity: Tech-support slang for customer intelligence that is so low it poses a severe hazard to those who come in contact with it.

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