I’m working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents. – Ray Kurzweil
Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? – Peter Schuyler
The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation’s 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn’t around. Nonetheless, the early universe still had the right stuff for life, and contained worlds that were just as suitable for spawning biology and intelligence as our own. – Seth Shostak
I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head. – Rafik Hariri
I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence. – Robert Kiyosaki
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator’s separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less. – Oliver Joseph Lodge
The fact that we can’t easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that we’re like ants trying to discover humans. Ask yourself: Would ants ever recognize houses, cars, or fire hydrants as the work of advanced biology? – Seth Shostak
The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on health and human services. And it’s not even tax money. The SETI Institute’s hunt for signals is funded by donations. – Seth Shostak
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow
Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments. – Randy Forbes
This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated. – Robert Jarvik
When you talk to a human in 2035, you’ll be talking to someone that’s a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence. – Ray Kurzweil
You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence. – Sebastian Thrun
I think there’s a lot of intelligence out there, but that’s just my guess. Question is: Are they peaceable or hostile? You could say that the peaceable ones are just going to stay at home and play with their Nintendos, so if you do meet any of them, they might be hostile. – Seth Shostak
In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in such a way as to give it a sharp edge, and the discovery is made in a cave, I am seduced into ascribing this to tool use by distant, fetid and furry ancestors. – Seth Shostak
I don’t believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences. – Rachel Kushner
Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad. – Richard Engel
I did my military service from 1989 – 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence. – Oded Fehr
Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn’t correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ. – Robert Sternberg
There can be goodness without much intelligence – but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together. – Robert Green Ingersoll