Quotes About Intelligence

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

I went to Illinois. Most people think I went to Princeton or something. But I was never a diligent student.

A family film is a very particular and explicit form. Family films typically include adult principles that are moral, but they should be as intelligent, funny, and intriguing as any other film.

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.

I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.

The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a smart computer will create its own goals and have its own will and will use its faster processing abilities and deep databases to beat humans at their own game.

Trailblazer was the NSA's attempt to catch up with the digital age. The problem is, Trailblazer didn't do anything. As far as I know, it didn't produce anything for roughly a little over $4 billion.

That's one of my pet peeves, that big guys apparently don't have an I.Q. above 50 in the eyes of audiences and producers.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

I wrote about Alan Turing, the great mathematician and code-breaker. He was an absolutely different person, certainly more brilliant than I ever will be.

Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking.

I see the game differently than some guys. I'm always reading the next move.

Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

The field of AI has traditionally been focused on computational intelligence, not on social or emotional intelligence. Yet being deficient in emotional intelligence (EQ) can be a great disadvantage in society.

Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few disagree that the bureau has come a long way.

Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.