Quotes on Intelligence

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never heard before, and it must have its own particular intelligence. By 'voice,' I don't mean vernacular. It has to have its own particular history and world that it inhabits.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.