In fairness, that's (allegedly, at least; I guess he could be lying) a quotation from another person. If someone came up to you and said "Aren't you the guy who's essentially[1] always right?", wouldn't you too be inclined to quote them, whether you agreed with them or not?

[1] S.A. actually quoted the person as follows: "You’re Scott Aaronson?! The quantum physicist who’s always getting into arguments on the Internet, and who’s essentially always right, but who sustains an unreasonable amount of psychic damage in the process?" which differs in several ways from what reverendsteveii falsely presents as a direct quotation.