Quotes about Intelligence

“But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.”

“As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'”

“When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.”

“The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.”

“There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.”

“George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.”

“The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.”

“There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.”

“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”

“Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it's still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.”

“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.”

“The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.”

“I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.”

“My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.”

“The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.”

“I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.”

“It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.”

“A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.”

“The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.”

“We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.”

“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.”