Quotes About Intelligence

Never was his remarkable memory more useful than when he could see mathematics only in his mind's eye.

We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, insight, intelligence, and industry in trying to arrive at the nearest values to truth. I hope, of course, to argue convincingly that having done this, we have an inescapable duty to seek to inculcate others with these values.

But is God a Yale man?

a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.

who two thousand years hence will still be throwing triumphantly off the yoke of Latin culture and intelligence of which they were never in any great permanent danger to begin with.

Como tío Billy suele decir, un hombre no es tan diferente de un caballo o una mula, a fin de cuentas, salvo en que una mula o un caballo tiene un poco más de sentido común.

Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest.

Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition, he says. Both a gift and a trap.

Imagine an alien, Fox said, who's come here to identify the planet's dominant form of intelligence. The alien has s look, then chooses. What do you think he picks? I probably shrugged. The zaibatsus, Fox said, the multinationals. The blood of a zaibatsu is information, not people. The structure is independent of the individual lives that comprise it. Corporation as life form. Not the Edge lecture again, I said.

Algorithms are called the aunties. They're self-organising and so nobody fully understands them.

I mean the nanosecond, that one starts figuring out ways to make itself smarter, Turing'll wipe it. Nobody trusts those fuckers, you know that. Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead.

The charges have to do with conspiracy to augment an artificial intelligence.

My Johnny, see, he was smart, real flash boy. Started out as a stash on Memory Lane, chips in his head and people paid to hide data there.

Case lowered the gun. "This is the matrix. You're Wintermute.

They built the first computers to crack German ice, right? Codebreakers. So there was ice before computers, you wanna look at it that way.

money, more than birth. Information. Very

Addictions, he thought, turning right, toward Seven Dials' name-sake obelisk, started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were, his therapist in Basel had said, less intelligent than goldfish.

She's a surprisingly advanced product of the early militarization of machine intelligence

All he could stand," said Meredith, someone whose intelligence protruded through her beauty, Milgrim felt, like the outline of unforgiving machinery pressing against a taut silk scarf.

Más que la tierra o el dinero, más que la cuna. Información. Eso es lo que importa.

Enough about my beauty, Buttercup said. Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

Guess?" Vizzini cried. "I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.