Quotes About Intelligence

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

I'm forty-nine, not fifteen, and I've made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when I was fifteen, or twenty-one, as, at that time in life, I wished I had been, I would undoubtedly now no longer be handsome--but I'd still be stupid. So, in the long run, I've won out.

What kind of a ridiculous animal are we to be lords of the world after the dinosaurs had failed? Sure, we're intelligent, but what's intelligence? We think it is important because we have it. If the Tyrannosaurus could have picked out the one quality that he thought would ensure species domination, it would be size and strength. And he would make a better case for it. He lasted longer than we're likely to.

Remember, to be truly effective, it is not necessary to hold the mind under a tight, controlling barrier which to the intelligent probe is as informative as a naked mentality. Rather, one should cultivate an innocence, an awareness of self, and an unselfconsciousness of self which leaves one nothing to hide.

If it's the product of nonhuman minds and hands, what may seem primitive may, in actual fact, be merely nonhuman.

No me considero como un ser de inteligencia subnormal, pero la cuestión es que su vaga conferencia no es muy reveladora.

Proti hlouposti ani sami bohové nic nezmohou.

Ever since Alexander went to India, Greek kings used elephants in war, mainly for prestige. They were rarely any use. Unlike horses, they were far too intelligent to risk injury merely at a man's urging. It was easy to panic elephants to hastily retreat, trampling their own army.

The division between human and robot is perhaps not as significant as that between intelligence and nonintelligence.

no human mind has created those equations directly. We have merely spent decades programming more powerful computers and they have devised and stored the equations, but, of course, we don't know if they are valid and have meaning. It depends entirely on how valid and meaningful the programming is in the first place.

Isaac Asimov

Men who rule by tricks of the mind need not necessarily be men in obvious power.

No robot built, of any type, could possibly hurt a human being. That was the First Law of Robotics: "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

robot = máquina + computadora.

He was not one of those dull-witted, unimaginative men of nerveless meat who were too stupid ever to be afraid

decimoctavo libro de la Ilíada de Homero, se indica que Hefesto, el dios griego, tiene como ayudante a «un par de sirvientas… hechas de oro exactamente como muchachas vivientes; tienen juicio en sus cabezas, pueden hablar y utilizan sus músculos, pueden girarse y moverse de izquierda a derecha así como hacer su trabajo…». Sin duda alguna, se trata de robots.

I hope I am not of subnormal intelligence

calzoncillos.

La diferencia no es grande. Uno puede definir un robot como una «máquina computerizada» o como una «computadora móvil». Se puede considerar una computadora como un «robot inmóvil».

Akl? ba??nda insan, haddini bilen insand?r

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si el conocimiento puede crear problemas, no es con la ignorancia con lo que podremos resolverlo (Isaac Asimov)

a large minority of human beings are mentally equipped to take part in the advance of physical science

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much–neglected commodity – common sense.