Quotes About Intelligence

è una ragazza virtuosa, sensata, intelligente, d'ottima educazione; una figlia devota e una perfetta padrona di casa. Solo, ogni tanto, soffre di tremendi attacchi di malinconia, di cui nessuno è mai riuscito a spiegare l'origine. Perciò vi raccomando: non meravigliatevi se improvvisamente, senza motivo, la vedete scoppiare in lacrime. Non è colpa vostra, e lei non ce l'ha con voi. Però è meglio che le giriate alla larga finché non le passa.

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

In his secretiveness he didn't merely resemble Newton, but actively exceeded him.

Without doubt, the moose is the most improbable, endearingly hopeless creature ever to live in the wilds. Every bit of it—its spindly legs, its chronically puzzled expression, its comical oven-mitt antlers—looks like some droll evolutionary joke. It is wondrously ungainly: it runs as if its legs have never been introduced to each other. Above all, what distinguishes the moose is its almost boundless lack of intelligence.

here is a new rule: If you are too stupid to spell "disappointed" even approximately correctly, you are not allowed to take part in public discourse at any level. Trawling

There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten.

Wind back the tape of life21 to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

he sees our lineal success as a fortunate fluke: "Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay." Gould

centre round or around. 'Their argument centres around the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act' (The Times). Centre indicates a point, and a point cannot encircle anything. Make it 'centre on' or 'revolve around'.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is essentially being too stupid to appreciate how stupid you are. That sounds like a pretty good description of the world to me. So

It is in all that complex synaptic entanglement that our intelligence lies, not in the number of neurons , as was once thought.

As Jablonski has written, "The loss of most of our body hair and the gain of the ability to dissipate excess body heat through eccrine sweating helped to make possible the dramatic enlargement of our most temperature-sensitive organ, the brain." That, she says, is how sweat helped to make you brainy.

If you took all the young men in southern England with those caps and that slouch and collected them all together in one room, you still wouldn't have enough IQ points to make a halfwit.

The few surviving photographs of Childe certainly confirm that he was no beauty—he was skinny and chinless, with squinting eyes behind owlish spectacles, and a mustache that looked as if it might at any moment stir to life and crawl away—but whatever unkind things people might say about the outside of his head, the inside was a place of golden splendor.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is essentially being too stupid to appreciate how stupid you are.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is basically being too stupid to know how stupid you are. That

IQ test was invented not to determine how smart people are but how stupid)

What if we are all getting stupid at more or less the same rate and we don't realize it because we are all declining together? You might argue that we'd see a general fall in IQ scores, but what if it's not the kind of deterioration that shows up in IQ tests? What if it were reflected in just, say, poor judgment or diminished taste? We

He likes to wear bow ties so we'll all know how intelligent he is. Personally, I've seen Post-it notes with more depth.

That boy's so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom.

Chancellor Juergen Richter sits with his one aide, a fair-haired young man named Dieter Kohl, the head of Germany's BND, its international intelligence service. Prime Minister Noya Baram brought her chief of staff, a stout, formal, older man who once served as a general in the Israeli army.

I have been assaulted by cleverness on all fronts.

Jiang Lijun is not a vice president for the China State Construction Engineering Corporation but a senior officer with the Ministry of State Security. What the hell are the Americans up to?