Quotes on Intelligence

I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

What needs to be debated is whether IQ tests, as currently designed, are fit for purpose, and capable of measuring the changing nature of intelligence in the 21st century among generations brought up with digital technology and different learning habits.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

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.

I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.

I've met my share of guys who have insulted and assaulted my intelligence with their stories and games. I say hello and goodbye!

Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it's a choice.

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.

The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals can or should be slaughtered for our pleasure, has led many of us to start asking more complex questions about what is and isn't normal.

American political elites feel very empowered to criticize the American intelligence community for not doing enough when they feel in danger, and as soon as we've made them feel safe again, they feel equally empowered to complain that we're doing too much.

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.

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.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.