Quotes About Intelligence

El culto a Dios es como la extracción de combustibles fósiles -sostuvo uno de ellos-. Es una actividad de mentes cerradas y sin sentido, pero mucha gente inteligente la sigue practicando, porque ha invertido en ella demasiados recursos

NSA was a bottom feeder

between chimpanzee and Homo sapiens.

She knew the computer's processors auditioned thirty million keys per second – one hundred billion per hour. If TRANSLTR was still counting, that meant the key had to be enormous – over ten billion digits long.

It's like having Siri on steroids.

Keeping information from the director of the NRO was like keeping Vatican secrets from the Pope.

The other difference between codes and patterns," Langdon continued, "is that codes do not occur naturally in the world. Musical notation does not sprout from trees, and symbols do not draw themselves in the sand. Codes are the deliberate inventions of intelligent consciousnesses.

Watson was probably now considered a primitive, single-celled bacterium on the evolutionary scale of synthetic intelligence.

footnote: With all due respect is grown-up talk for I think you're stupid.

people in general so often seem to get dumber in direct proportion to their academic training.

at that moment, the sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

L'ondata divenne una massa urlante di rivoltosi; in quel momento, la somma dei quozienti d'intelligenza era molto inferiore a quella del più modesto componente singolo. La folla ha passioni, non cervello.

Johnny sighed in the darkness. "I don't understand the exact purpose of the Keats Project or the other Old Earth analogs, but I suspect that it is part of a TechnoCore project going back at least seven standard centuries to realize the Ultimate Intelligence." "The Ultimate Intelligence," I said, exhaling smoke. "Uh-huh. So the TechnoCore is trying to… what?… to build God." "Yes.

As Ummon and the other Masters teach, it explains why the giraffe evolved a long neck but never why the other animals did not. It explains why humankind evolved to intelligence, but not why the tree near the front gate refused to.

the sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

SOMETIMES SIRI SEEMED so ignorant it made me sick.

For the thousandth time, I wondered if there were a way to reprogram this autonomous intelligence so that it wasn't such a pain in the ass.

Occam's Razor: All other things being equal, the simplest solution is usually the correct one. —William of Occam, fourteenth century Darwin's Blade: All other things being equal, the simplest solution is usually stupidity. —Darwin Minor, twenty-first century

Hire people smarter than you. Fail early, fail often. Listen to everyone's ideas. Face toward the problems. B-level work is bad for your soul. It's more important to invest in good people than in good ideas.

Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them

many people with IQs of 160 work for people with IQs of 100, if the former have poor intrapersonal intelligence and the latter have a high one.

Stress makes people stupid." On

Emotional aptitude is a meta-ability , determining how well we can use whatever other skills we have , including raw inellect .