Quotes About Intelligence

When a person can take pleasure in marching in step to a piece of music it is enough to make me despise him. He has been given his big brain only by mistake.

One day someone called the Institute and asked to speak to a particular dean. When his secretary said that the dean wasn't available, the caller hesitantly asked for Einstein's home address. That was not possible to give out, he was informed. The caller's voice then dropped to a whisper. "Please don't tell anybody," he said, "but I am Dr. Einstein, I'm on my way home, and I've forgotten where my house is."40

The thing that Von Neumann had, which I've noticed that other geniuses have, is the ability to pick out, in a particular problem, the one crucial thing that's important.

Many people suppose that computing machines are replacements for intelligence and have cut down the need for original thought," Wiener wrote. "This is not the case."14 The more powerful the computer, the greater the premium that will be placed on connecting it with imaginative, creative, high-level human thinking.

He has a second-rate mind but a first-rate intuition about people," Kissinger once said of Rockefeller. "I have a first-rate mind but a third-rate intuition about people.

Okay, it's not easy, but that's why we're no Einstein and he was.

the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide-

John McCarthy, a Santa Claus lookalike who coined the term artificial intelligence

wanted to build a frequency counter when he was twelve, and he was able to look up Bill

late 1980s, when it became possible for ordinary people at home or in the office to dial up and go online. This would launch a new phase of the Digital Revolution, one that would fulfill the vision of Bush, Licklider, and Engelbart that computers would augment human intelligence by being tools both for personal creativity and for collaborating.

Sometimes the difference between geniuses and jerks hinges on whether their ideas turn out to be right.

Computers today are brilliant idiots

Paul e Clara Jobs eram pais amorosos e estavam dispostos a adaptar suas vidas à situação de ter um filho que era muito inteligente — e também teimoso. Eles se esforçariam muito para servi-lo, tratá-lo como alguém especial.

When I realized that I was smarter than my parents, I felt tremendous shame for having thought that.

A break came when Polish intelligence officers created a machine based on a captured German coder that was able to crack some of the Enigma codes. By the time the Poles showed the British their machine, however, it had been rendered ineffective because the Germans had added two more rotors and two more plugboard connections to their Enigma machines.

J. C. R. LICKLIDER

artificial intelligence pioneer John McCarthy

His wife also did not request any restrictions or control, nor did she ask to see in advance what I would publish. In fact she strongly encouraged me to be honest about his failings as well as his strengths. She is one of the smartest

they have to try to figure out where their opponent's pieces are. "The wildest

ninguna máquina ha superado el test de Turing, una prueba bastante sencilla y, posiblemente, no demasiado significativa. Y, desde luego, ninguna ha superado el listón de Ada —aún más alto— de ser capaz de «originar» cualquier pensamiento propio.

perhaps no matter how fast computers progress, artificial intelligence may never outstrip the intelligence of the human-machine partnership. Let

Ingenuity without wisdom is dangerous.

Uno de los rasgos que distinguen a una gran inteligencia es su disposición a cambiar de parecer, como podemos constatar en el caso de Leonardo.

El test de Turing, que él llamaba «juego de imitación», es sencillo: un interrogador remite preguntas por escrito a un humano y a una máquina que se encuentran en otra habitación, y trata de determinar a partir de sus respuestas cuál de los dos es el humano.