Quotes About Intelligence

This elaborate concatenation of life-forms and sequential strategies is highly adaptive and, so far as mosquitoes and hosts are concerned, difficult to resist. It shows evolution's power, over great lengths of time, to produce structures, tactics, and transformations of majestic intricacy. Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.

Cualquiera que defienda el diseño inteligente en lugar de la evolución debería pararse a pensar en por qué Dios habría dedicado tal parte de Su inteligencia a diseñar los parásitos de la malaria.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." — ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Knowledge was the most valuable of all treasures. No wonder

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

His chosen medium—writing—had, he believed, a high potential for holding America together. America was a nation of readers, known worldwide for its high literacy rates. At midcentury, a full 90 percent of white American adults could read, as opposed to about 60 percent in England. Whitman crowed hyperbolically: "In regard to intelligence, education, knowledge, the masses of [English] people, in comparison with the masses of the U.S., are at least two hundred years behind us.

If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.

It's not that I'm so smart," Albert Einstein once said. "It's just that I stay with problems longer." Einstein's simple statement is a clarion call for all who seek greatness, for themselves or their children. In the end, persistence is the difference between mediocrity and enormous success.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

I'm coding an artisanal consciousness.

Zis David Suchet, he zinks he knows me, but, of course, he does not. He is clever, but I am brilliant.

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Our task is to learn how to build smart rooms—that is, how to build networks that make us smarter, especially since, when done badly, networks can make us distressingly stupider.

in this way, artificial neural networks are like the brain's very real neural network. These networks can be insanely complicated.

Our newly capacious machines can get closer to understanding it than we can, and they, as machines, don't really understand anything at all.

It is both mysterious and miraculous that roughly the same intelligence necessary to flake a barbed spearpoint is sufficient to discover the theorems of mathematics. In a different universe, it might have been otherwise. And so human beings would have been spared the tragedy of existing half as ape and half as god.

We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with the many problems that we face in the world.

Humans can no longer afford to think in division and darkness. Collaborative intelligence is the light that is necessary for our individual and collective survival. We have no choice now but to think together.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Adlai has a third rate mind that he can't make up.

Without Intelligent Design there could be no stupidity

It's probably a good idea to merge us with real intelligence before merging us with artificial intelligence

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.