Alan Kay Quotes

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Intelligence is not a science.

Intellect is not wisdom.

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

I like to say understanding is the power.

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

People are not stupid.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number; it's not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It's the energy that you project.