Intelligence is the ability to solve problems
Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."
She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.
I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.
The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.
What if she figures out you're not very smart?
I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
I was always good at math and science and physics.
The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.
Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.
Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
I believe in intelligence, and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it—an I.Q. or the like.
