#intelligence

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#beauty #consciousness #goes #inseparable #intelligence

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#enough #fair #good #had #insult

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#human intelligence #intelligence #means #superhuman #technological

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?' ↗

— Bill Maher

#briefings #bush #clinton #color #first

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#fellows #intelligence #only #our #pretend

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#apologize #being #come #curtain #decent

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#imagination #intelligence #requires #true

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#assuming #audience #bad #bad news #being

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

#absolve #actions #ask #consequences #curiosity

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