Quotes About Intelligence

At one point he turned to Christie and said, "Chris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves.

What was threatening was cold, hard intelligence.

a thousand people don't build anything; if you need to build something really complicated really fast, you hire fifty of the smartest people you can find.

The smart person accepts. The idiot insists.

Daryl Morey] suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his mind well enough to mistrust it

For geniuses, they are really dumb," she said. "Some of them are really pampered: They can't even put together a cardboard box. They don't think you do something. They think you call somebody.

Once, he got himself invited to a meeting with the CEO of Bank of America, Ken Lewis. "I was sitting there listening to him. I had an epiphany. I said to myself, 'Oh my God, he's dumb!' A lightbulb went off. The guy running one of the biggest banks in the world is dumb!

Chris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves.

Her receptors were just very keen," said Pontes, "and she processes information fast and it spits out decisions and it makes people get nervous.

The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.

The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost no function in an investment bank. The bankers used economics as a sort of standardized test of general intelligence.

Al hombre más torpe se le pueden explicar los temas más difíciles si no se ha formado todavía ninguna idea de ellos; pero no se puede aclarar ni aun lo más sencillo al hombre más inteligente si está firmemente convencido de que conoce ya, sin la menor sombra de duda, lo que se presenta ante él.   LIEV TOLSTÓI, 1897

nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

Much later, he heard Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate in physics, hold forth on seemingly every subject under the sun. After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, "You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are." Once

The University of Michigan psychologist Dick Nisbett, after he'd met Amos, designed a one-line intelligence test: The sooner you figure out that Amos is smarter than you are, the smarter you are.

You Can Be a Stock Market Genius

He had listened to an American economist talk about how so-and-so was stupid and so-and-so was a fool, then said, "All your economic models are premised on people being smart and rational, and yet all the people you know are idiots.

If I'm a Trump person I'm going to assume the people in charge of the nuclear weapons are sufficiently alive to the risks around them that they don't need Rick Perry's help. After all, the only thing Trump had to say publicly about Rick Perry during the campaign was that he "should be forced to take an IQ test" and that "he put glasses on so people think he's smart.

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said. The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.

Inside him a quality and a chemical—intelligence and testosterone—wrestled for hegemony. At the moment the chemical was winning on points.

Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to public prevention of private abuses. For example: if you don't like working a hundred hours a week for twenty-five cents a day, then find another employer! It is obvious to intelligent people, if not libertarians, that more generous employers will price themselves out of a market whose standards are set by the most rapacious.

The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately three thousand trillion times that of your average human.

As I believe I observed earlier,' said the albino prince to the still-cowed Gaynor, 'the most powerful of beings are not necessarily the most intelligent, nor, indeed, sane, nor well-mannered. The more one knows of the gods, the more one learns this fundamental lesson…

They blinded themselves to the obvious. That is the great triumph of mindless need over intelligence and the human spirit.