“Ignorance will often fade given time, you have to work hard to remain stupid…”
“Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception. A crowd is never equal to the intelligence of any one of its members.”
“You have to be brave when you are stupid.”
“The media and intelligentsia were partly complicit in Trump s depiction of the world as a dystopia headed for even greater disaster. Charge the cockpit or you die! cried the pro-Trump intellectual right. I d rather see the empire burn to the ground under Trump, opening up at least the possibility of radical change, than cruise on autopilot under Clinton, said the pro-Trump left. When people believe that the world is heading off a cliff, they are receptive to the perennial appeal of demagogues: What do you have to lose? But if the media and intellectuals put events into statistical and historical context, rather than constantly crying crisis, they would make it clearer what the answer to that question is. Revolutionary regimes from Nazi Germany and Maoist China to contemporary Venezuela show that people have a tremendous amount to lose when a charismatic leader forces a radical personal vision on a society. A modern liberal democracy is a precious achievement. Until the messiah comes, it will always have problems, but it s better to solve problems than to start a conflagration and hope for the best.”
“What do you hope girls take away from watching [Agent Carter]? I would hope that young girls can see that they don’t have to sacrifice their femininity to be taken seriously in the workplace. But also they don’t have to rely on their physicality or their appearance; that it’s just as important, if not a lot more so, to be able to use their intelligence, their wit, their humor and their warmth to be able to get where they want to and to achieve their goals in life.”
“Ordinary people can do extraordinary things when their faith is greater than their fear.”
“Unlike the laws of reality that scientist describe in complex mathematical equations, the laws that govern human behavior are imprecise and in constant flux. We are complex organisms because we possess the capacity to experience, recall, and imagine. We are self-constructed. How we think becomes our reality. The highest act of human intelligence is not building bombs and inventing poisons that can destroy the world, but engaging in acts of contemplation that expands human consciousness.”
“Jargon is a sure sign that intelligence has lost its way.”
“Artificial Intelligence can be a supplement to human insight, not substitute.”
“GENERAL INTELLIGENCE! Form a straight line.”
“There are no intelligent people, only intelligent actions carried out by certain people in contexts that offer the opportunity for such action to take place.”
“Do what you like, so long as it is intelligent.”
“Hard work eventually solves all problems, but to solve problems quickly you need intelligence.”
“God has created the trees as the sources of food and shelter for others. He has so sensibly not given the trees any weapons like horns, pointed teeth or intelligence to protect themselves. Say, if we went to pluck a mango and if the tree attacked us, then it would be difficult for us to survive! God has not given horns to a lion because it already has a weapon to protect himself- razor-sharp teeth. God has not given the humans horns or sharp teeth but more valuable gift- intelligence!”
“It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of the task which it is performing, and survey what it has done; it is always looking for, and often finding, patterns. Now I said that an intelligence canjump out of its task, but that does not mean that it always will. However, a little prompt- ing will often suffice. For example, a human being who is reading a book may grow sleepy. Instead of continuing to read until the book is finished, he is just as likely to put the book aside and turn off the light. He has stepped out of the system and yet it seems the most natural thing in the world to us. Or, suppose person A is watching television when person B comes in the room, and shows evident displeasure with the situation. Person A may think he understands the problem, and try to remedy it by exiting the present system (that television program), and flipping the chan- nel knob, looking for a better show. Person B may have a more radical concept of what it is to exit the system -namely to turn the television off! Of course, there are cases where only a rare individual will have the vision to perceive a system which governs many peoples lives, a system which had never before even been recognized as a system; then such people often devote their lives to convincing other people that the system really is there, and that it ought to be exited from!”
“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”
“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”