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Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

Faith succeeds where intelligence says: "No way!” – Gavriil Stiharul
Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence. – Baslo
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail. – Charles A. Beard
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. – Alfred North Whitehead
Intelligence is the airport; will power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. – Flower A. Newhouse
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence. – Henry Louis Mencken
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. – Eugene S. Wilson
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth. – Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence. – Frank Kingdon
The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within. – Bryant McGill
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. – Don Herold
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. – Sigmund Freud
From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting. – Hermes
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. – Ronald Reagan
Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'. – Keven Kwaku
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. – Edgar Allan Poe
No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light! – Dr. Jose P. Rizal
Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant. – Gen Alfred Gray, USMC
The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. – Albert Einstein
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms. – Niall MacDermot
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night. – H. L. Mencken

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