Quotes About Intelligence

My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good arm and you're very smart when it comes to calling a game.'

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

I was a good student in school.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt, ' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.