Subject: Intelligence (Page 10)

If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods.

If idiots could fly, this would be an airport.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

(1688 – 1744) English poet

The New York Times is read by the people who run the country; the Washington Post is read by the people who think they run the country; the National Enquirer is read by the people who think Elvis is alive and running the country…

entrepreneur, software engineer & game programmer

Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.

(1948 – ) English rock vocalist & songwriter

Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

(1917 – 1963) 35th U.S. president

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

(1971 – ) Canadian blogger, journalist & science fiction author

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

(1875 – 1965) German/French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician & medical missionary

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

(1948 – ) English novelist

If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance.

(1930 – ) American lawyer & educator

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? … he went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Dan Quayle is more stupid than Ronald Reagan put together.

(1954 – ) cartoonist, screenwriter, producer & creator of The Simpsons

Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

(1859 – 1952) American philosopher, psychologist & educational reformer

He is so stupid… it takes him an hour to cook Minute Rice.

At twenty, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at thirty, we worry about what it’s thinking of us; at forty, we discover it isn’t thinking about us at all.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

He was so square he was divisible by four.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist