Quotes about Intelligence

“Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.”

“I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.”

“Smart vacations lead to greater happiness and energy at work and, therefore, greater productivity, intelligence, and resilience.”

“Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.”

“Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.”

“Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.”

“Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.”

“Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.”

“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.”

“In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.”

“Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.”

“Controlled aggression, to me, is one of the most important traits to have. To have that social intelligence to know when to exert aggression in the military environment, and when to stay calm, cool, and collected.”

“As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.”

“If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.”

“I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.”

“If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.”

“I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.”

“Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.”

“We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.”

“To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.”

“My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.”