Quotes About Intelligence

These days cream seldom rose in the intelligence community – but crap still floated.

with high cognitive ability, to one degree or another, were often fools and should embrace their foolishness rather than deny it.

What's he a mix of—fox with fox?

Mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.

it was clear to Jane that Sara, in spite of her intelligence and fortitude, had internalized those words and could not bleach them from the stained self-image with which Simon had left her.

Cornell knew that most people thought he was strange, even creepy. He'd been diagnosed with Asperger's disorder and various forms of autism. Maybe all those diagnoses were correct or maybe none were. His IQ was very high, and he'd made a lot of money while sitting alone in a room, developing apps that had proved enormously popular. When he was rich, no less than when he'd been poor, people thought he was strange, even creepy.

Kipp yearned to say so much to her while time remained. Although his intelligence had somehow been enhanced to a human level, he lacked the vocal

Like her grandfather, she is a knowledge sponge.

Ray Kurzweil, dreamed of the Singularity, the moment when human and machine intelligence would merge

no act of creation was finer or more beautiful than the creation of an intelligent mind.

I guess with artificial intelligence, just like with natural intelligence, there can be a way-creepy side.

eidetic memory

A lesser mind might try to hide its brilliance behind a mask of stupidity. He chooses, instead, to conceal his true wisdom under a flamboyant pretense of erudition that he is pleased to let people think is the best of him.

all creatures with high cognitive ability, to one degree or another, were often fools and should embrace their foolishness rather than deny it.

He'd been reading at a college level since he was seven years old, which maybe didn't mean a whole lot, considering that many college graduates didn't seem to know anything.

the brain produced

Singularity

Bizim kadar budala olmayanlar? ak?ll? saymay?z.

The eternal companions of all clever women are mistrust and scorn.

And not the clarity of the insane, but the everyday clarity of an intelligent woman in a less-than-intelligent world. She smiled and gave them each a small, shy wave as she sat.

new micro-generation of substandard cops who think they can compensate for bad instincts, poor people skills, and limited intelligence with high-powered weaponry.

Poetry is important to people in a crisis, as love and intelligence are important. These are survival tools.

The problem in our time is that maturity is not high on the list of goals we offer the next generation. We stress happiness, success, and intelligence but not maturity. And that is too bad, both for society, which suffers when too many of its members are immature, and for the individual who wants to be happy. For happiness is not available to the immature. And one of the prominent characteristics of immaturity is seeing oneself primarily as a victim.

Any atheist who believes good and evil really exist, or life has a purpose beyond one he or she has made up, or that free will exists, or, for that matter, that science alone will explain how the universe came about, or how life arose from non-life, or how intelligence arose from non-intelligence, has suspended reason in favor of faith.