Intelligence Quotes

“Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.”

“The question is not whether intelligent machines can have any emotions, but whether machines can be intelligent without any emotions.”

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”

“I've been called a dictator, an autocrat, a Svengali - all sorts of things. But nobody has ever called me a fool.”

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”

“I have a feeling that the quest for extraterrestrial intelligence is a one-way street. We are on the receiving end, but not the sending end.”

“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”

“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”

“I think it is very important for the American people to understand that the job of the Central Intelligence Agency is to steal secrets.”

“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

“We have a moral obligation to be intelligent.”

“Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings.”

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

“To be intelligent, you have to have a predictive model of the world.”

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”

“The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”

“The problem is that we don't know what the processes of intelligence are.”

“That's a nice theory. We have no evidence of that.”