No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
I’ve long maintained during my 50-plus year career in intelligence that leaks endanger national security, they compromise sources, methods, and tradecraft, and they can put assets’ lives at risk.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I’ve nothing against using something to help your beauty – but do it in a good way, with intelligence.
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman’s intelligence was a man’s deception.
Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
I want to exude strength and intelligence.
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
My father ran London Films. He made films like ‘The Red Shoes,’ ‘The Third Man.’ And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.
I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.
Well, it’s a – I don’t want to disappoint you, but it’s a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.
The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at – indeed, great at.
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn’t the best litmus test.
My ideal woman would be someone with both beauty and intelligence. Someone who can hold her own in a conversation, gets along with my family and respects elders, loves children, and have a sense of humour as whacky as mine.
I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Don’t leave home without your sword – your intellect.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
When I play Raven, I have to play her at the height of my intelligence.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Our intelligence agencies have vast powers, and Obama used them illegally to spy on political opponents. This can’t be allowed to stand.
The intelligence of cinema-goers should be respected.
Which, autocracy or democracy, is really better suited to modern China? If we base our judgment upon the intelligence and the ability of the Chinese people, we come to the conclusion that the sovereignty of the people would be far more suitable for us.
I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.
Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.
So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it’s good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom’s not, and I’m not. But I believe in God, and that there’s a higher power and an intelligence that’s bigger than us and that we can rely on. It’s not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
By the time we get to the 2040s, we’ll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that’s singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.
I absolutely don’t think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
The degree of intelligence that a man or a machine can show depends on many qualities of the ways that knowledge, goals, and problem-solving techniques are represented and put together, and not so much on the fine details.
Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, ‘Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we’re doing it.’
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Well, I think there’s a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
I think there’s a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don’t have to think about it.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.
We are proactively training and upscaling thousands of people in key areas such as cloud, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one’s share in the world’s work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools – intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it – this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It’s time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
I think the political class in Berlin doesn’t need to be supervised and monitored by intelligence services in order to find out what they’re thinking. Just go to lunch with them, go to dinner with them, or read the papers.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.
I’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
We have artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D-printing, robotics and nanotechnology that have changed the face of modern medicine. It is essential for Indian doctors to familiarise themselves with the latest developments to be able to control technology and not the other way around.
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
