Daily Inspiration Quote by David Arquette

Arquette lands the joke by dressing a generational panic in a compliment. “Kids today are smarter than we ever were” sounds like the standard, gracious handoff older celebrities are supposed to perform. Then he throws in the kicker: “And they’ve got computers, too,” as if the existence of computers is a kind of evolutionary upgrade - not just a tool but a multiplier. The punchline, “They’re scary to me,” is doing double duty: it’s self-deprecation (I’m outpaced, I’m not the authority anymore) and it’s an honest admission that the cultural map has been redrawn while adults were still using the old legend.

The specific intent feels less like a serious claim about IQ and more like a performance of humility from someone who came up in a pre-social-media fame economy. Arquette is an actor whose early career sits on the edge between analog celebrity and the always-on internet era; his aside acknowledges that the power dynamics flipped. Kids aren’t just consuming culture now - they’re indexing it, remixing it, fact-checking it, and dragging public figures with receipts.

Under the humor is a nervous respect: younger people have access to information and platforms that make them harder to impress and easier to underestimate at your peril. Calling them “scary” smuggles in the adult fear of irrelevance, but it also credits kids with agency. It’s a light line with a real bite: the future isn’t waiting for permission, and it already knows how to use the software.