Editing The Wickedictionary (section)

==I==
'''Idea:''' ''n.'' an idea is that which puts the truth in check mate.<ref>Adapted from Jose Ortega y Gasset</ref>

'''Idealism:''' ''n.'' is when men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.<ref>Adapted from H. L. Mencken</ref>

'''Ignorance:''' ''n.'' that which is not as vast as our failure to use what we know.<ref>Adapted from M. King Hubbert</ref>

'''Illegal immigrant:''' ''n.'' a hapless foreigner who peacefully enters a country with the noble purpose of propping up its economy, by performing all the jobs that local inhabitants refuse to do, thereby sacrificing himself for the greater good; as opposed to a blood thirsty foreign warlord who rapes, pillages, and dominates a country, who with his descendants then gets disingenuously elevated to 'ruling class' status.<ref>Derek Abbott (2009)</ref>

'''Imitation:''' ''n.'' is the sincerest form of flattery. <ref>Charles Caleb Colton</ref>

'''Immorality:''' ''n.'' the morality of those who are having a better time.<ref>H. L. Mencken</ref>

'''Impossibility:''' ''n.'' that which often has a kind of integrity to it, which the merely improbable lacks.<ref>Adapted from Douglas Adams</ref>

'''Income tax:''' ''n.'' is the hardest thing in the world to understand.<ref>Albert Einstein</ref>

'''Incredulity:''' ''n.''  the difficulty in accepting that a man is telling the truth, when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.<ref>Adapted from H. L. Mencken</ref>

'''Inflation:''' ''n.'' cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

'''Information:''' ''n.'' a somewhat random sequence of symbols that has value to its beholder.<ref>Derek Abbott, 2010</ref>

'''Innovation:''' ''n.'' the rediscovery of a forgotten old trick, within a modern context.<ref>Derek Abbott, 2010</ref>

'''Insanity:''' ''n.'' 1. is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.<ref>Rita Mae Brown, ''Sudden Death'' (1983)</ref>

'''Insanity:''' ''n.'' 2.  is inflation of the ego to its ultimate.<ref>Philip K. Dick, ''The Man in the High Castle'' (1962)</ref>

'''Insanity:''' ''n.'' 3. the only thing that keeps you sane in a crazy world.<ref>Adapted from Leo Buscaglia</ref>

'''Insurance:''' ''n.'' a form of gambling in which we bet against our chance of escaping disaster, and win only when we lose.<ref>Rick Bayan</ref> 

'''Intelligence:''' ''n.'' is the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education is the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.<ref>A. E. Wiggan</ref>

'''International relations:''' ''n.'' a questionable view held by a sovereign state that they relate to another sovereign state in a sophisticated and meaningful manner.<ref> K. R., who wishes to remain anonymous</ref>

'''Internet:''' ''n.'' the most sophisticated technological network ever created, able to link the sum of the world's knowledge and used to share funny pictures of cats.<ref>Contributed specially for ''The Wickedictionary'' by Julian O'Shea, 2009</ref>

'''Intuition:''' ''n.'' is a suspension of logic due to impatience.<ref>Rita Mae Brown</ref>

'''IQ:''' ''n.'' the number that predicts the extent to which one will perform successfully on subsequent IQ tests.<ref>Rick Bayan</ref>