Quotes about Intelligence

“Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.”

“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”

“We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.”

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”

“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”

“Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.”

“Dog-fooding is using your own products so that you understand from inside out what it is you're providing the customers. It's another way to gain insights and to gain intelligence. You use it yourself; you eat your own dog food. Every time we do that, we discover something that we can improve.”

“My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.”

“I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.”

“The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.”

“Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.”

“There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.”

“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.”

“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”

“In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.”

“I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.”

“I became interested in AI in high school because I read 'Goedel, Escher, Bach,' a book by Douglas Hofstader. He showed how all their work in some ways fit together, and he talked about artificial intelligence. I thought 'Wow, this is what I want to be doing.'”

“We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.”

“When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.”

“I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.”

“We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.”