Quotes About Intelligence

The "stream" we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.

There is the will of the people, there is the will of the mind! Always be at the side of the second one! The first one contains mostly stupidity; the second one contains always intelligence.

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

An angel exists and works as an intelligence, and its state is one of beholding God ceaselessly, who is the object of its intellectual essence.

We should be afraid. Not of intelligent machines. But of machines making decisions that they do not have the intelligence to make. I am far more afraid of machine stupidity than of machine intelligence. Machine stupidity creates a tail risk. Machines can make many many good decisions and then one day fail spectacularly on a tail event that did not appear in their training data. This is the difference between specific and general intelligence.

as the AI researcher Pedro Domingos so memorably put it, "People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world."21

A pile of narrow intelligences will never add up to a general intelligence. General intelligence isn't about the number of abilities, but about the integration between those abilities.

Above all, the take-home message from this book is that we humans tend to overestimate AI advances and underestimate the complexity of our own intelligence. Today's

the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.

You know something,Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and to be that smart means you know all the answers, and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming.

To be that smart means you know all the answers and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, nor social harmony.

When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.

Queen Elizabeth I has a fair claim to be the best educated monarch ever to sit on the throne of England. Apart from her mastery of rhetoric — demonstrated at Tilbury — she spoke six languages and translated French and Latin texts.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

The term machine learning entered the lexicon in 1959, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

Human expertise is too complex to be represented in a simple binary system

I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

If you are an educated person, you will need to be careful not to assume that uneducated people are too stupid to understand the Bible.

Aos 10 anos todos nos dizem que somos espertos, mas que nos faltam ideias próprias. Aos 20 anos dizem que somos muito espertos, mas que não venhamos com ideias. Aos 30 anos pensamos que ninguém mais tem ideias. Aos 40 achamos que as ideias dos outros são todas nossas. Aos 50 pensamos com suficiente sabedoria para já não ter ideias. Aos 60 ainda temos ideias mas esquecemos do que estávamos a pensar. Aos 70 só pensar já nos faz dorrmir.