Quotes about Intelligence

“Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.”

“The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.”

“Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.”

“We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.”

“If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.”

“There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.”

“You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.”

“I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.”

“I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties.”

“Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.”

“Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.”

“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.”

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”

“By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.”

“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”

“The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.”

“Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.”

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

“Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.”

“Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.”

“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.”