#intelligence

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#innovation #intelligence #beauty

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#consciousness #creature #even #human #human intelligence

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#imagination #intelligence #requires #true

We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this. ↗

— John Mica

#american #average #average american #concentrating #convert

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#against #brain #good #others #our

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#clark #cost #deal #did #eden

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#come #dangers #functions #intelligence #solely

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. ↗

— Holly Near

#guts #huge #intelligence #keep #leap

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#artificial #artificial intelligence #been #believe #broken

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars. ↗

— Ozzy Osbourne

#any #bloody #i #intelligence #intelligent