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Quotes About Smartness

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
~ Kathryn Stockett
There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
~ Josh Billings
It is good to be brave, Lieutenant. It is better to be smart, and much less painful for those around you
~ Tom Clancy
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
~ Kevin Kelly
What we want instead of conscious intelligence is artificial smartness. As AIs develop, we might have to engineer ways to prevent consciousness in them. Our most premium AI services will likely be advertised as consciousness-free. Nonhuman
~ Kevin Kelly
What we want instead of conscious intelligence is artificial smartness.
~ Kevin Kelly
In fact, the business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI. Find something that can be made better by adding online smartness to it. An
~ Kevin Kelly
I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?
~ Jacque Fresco
No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.
~ Neal Stephenson
If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
~ Gracie Allen
The more wit the less courage.
~ Thomas Fuller
all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
~ Bill Gates
Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.
~ Astro Teller
The basic creed of the gangster, and for that matter of any other type of criminal, is that whatever a man has is his only so long as he can keep it, and that the one who takes it away from him has not done anything wrong, but has merely demonstrated his smartness.
~ Unknown
Sheep are funny, the Whitlock said. Now, you look at how they behave when you throw some grub over the fence to them, such as corn stalks. Why, they'll spot that from a mile away. The Whitlock chuckled. They're smart when it comes to what concerns them. And maybe that helps us see what true smartness is; it isn't having read a lot of big books, or knowing long words...it's being able to spot what's to our advantage. It's got to be useful to be real smartness.
~ Philip K. Dick
Immortality offers a significant advantage, but it is no substitute for intelligence.
~ Jim Butcher
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
~ W.E.B. DuBois
I am not a bad actor but a smart actor and I have exhausted my smartness now.
~ Mahesh Manjrekar
The intellectual distinction of a house and its smartness are generally in inverse rather than direct ratio.
~ Marcel Proust
You is kind, you is smart, you is important. - Aibileen Clark
~ Unknown
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
~ Gracie Allen