The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature both animals and plants the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself you don't have to think about it.

If an animal does something we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason we call it intelligence.

If a cat does something we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason we call it intelligence.

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was unfortunately lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

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.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport like the silver fox. It happens.

Undernourished intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen filled with nothing the body can use.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images devious and prejudicial language dubious linkages weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Bottom line is I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25 my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Ignorance is no excuse it's the real thing.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Like many intellectuals he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.