Quotes About Intelligence

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.

It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.

[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Breasts like granite and a brain like swiss cheese.

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first.

A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.