Quotes About Intelligence

For me, learning chess was natural; with my sisters around me, I wanted to play.

Here's the thing: I think the media underestimates the intelligence of the moviegoer. We need to be fulfilled. People want to sit down and think, and I try to make people think.

Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.

For years, Israeli and American intelligence agencies assumed that if Iran were to gain the ability to build a bomb, it would be a result of its relationship with Russia, which was building a nuclear reactor for Iran at a site called Bushehr and had assisted the Iranians in their missile-development program.

I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

I'm an intelligent man but I don't feel I articulate or get that across nearly enough, especially in social situations.

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.

When you're six years old, the word 'poo' is the funniest word on God's earth, but this insults my intelligence.

George Tenet was actually a very strong centralizing force. If you met George by personality, George met with the president six days out of seven: nontrivial attribute inside the federal government. And George was head of the CIA.

A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.

I've always been skeptical of the idea that sentience is going to be an exclusively human attribute.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

I was more of a person that liked flying and operating high-performance machinery, and I liked that, the skill it took, the intelligence it took to do that.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

I think if a person plays 'Quantum Conundrum' and they walk away feeling really intelligent and skilled, that's what I want. That's my only goal.

Deco is a very skillful player. He thinks very fast on the pitch.

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

Leadership is IQ, it's not skills.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.