Quotes About Intelligence

ChoicePoint is a private intelligence agency. Several years

ThinThread, a pilot program developed by the NSA in the late 1990s, would have enabled the NSA to collect, analyze, and secure massive quantities of communications data while protecting personal privacy in the process. ThinThread combined four advanced

Buzz Aldrin, the lunar module pilot, was another sort of man altogether. A lot of the guys didn't care much for Buzz personally. He got on people's nerves and seemed to have an inordinate fascination with his own ideas and abilities. Frank Borman had made it clear to pretty much everyone that he didn't want Buzz on any of his crews. No doubt Buzz was a smart guy, with a doctorate in space rendezvous from MIT, but he thought he was smarter than he really was.

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! Don't sleep with people who don't read!

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Life is hard. It is harder if you are stupid!

Life it tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

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An example of how stupid people admitting they're stupid doesn't make them any less stupid

Half the political intelligentsia who talk to a working audience don't get the value of their stuff across—not so much because they're over their audience's heads, as because half the chaps are listening to the voice and not to the words, so they knock a big discount off what they do hear because it's all a bit fancy, and not like ordinary, normal talk.

Can you imagine us tolerating any form of rival intelligence on earth, no matter how it got here? Why, we can't even tolerate anything but the narrowest differences of views within our own race. No,' he shook his head, 'no, I'm afraid Bocker's idea of fraternization never had the chance of a flea in a furnace.

It won't be just one bomb. And it was always too late, my dear. Can you imagine us tolerating any form of rival intelligence on earth, no matter how it got here? Why, we can't even tolerate anything but the narrowest differences of views within our own race.

once we had developed intelligence we weren't satisfied with the world as we found it;

Everyone starts by knowing nothing about anything, but God gives him—and even her—brains to find out with. Failure to use them is not a virtue to be praised...

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.

The one thing you are not good at is playing dumb.

Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

Do you feel insecure because you keep getting the nagging feeling that you're not that smart? Well, I've got good news for you, my friend. You have no need to be insecure. That nagging feeling is absolutely right on target. You are not that smart. But I have more good news for you. You are also not alone.

Robert Siegler of Carnegie Mellon University has

Rather than praising their personalities or intelligence ("You are so smart" or "artistic" or "athletic"), criticizing them ("You are so stupid" or "uncoordinated"), or attributing their accomplishments to luck, we can praise their efforts or strategies.