Quotes About Intelligence

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.

There should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read".

I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.

In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

It's nice the know the computer understands the situation, but I would like to understand it too.

There is something sexy about a computer nerd.

The computer is a moron.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.