The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.
Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.
Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
I like a guy who's sarcastic, serious, sensitive - even just silent. But you have to do it at the right times. That's sexy. To me, it reflects intelligence.
An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.
Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.