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The problem with intelligent agents and filters is that they can never do anything more than a crude approximation of my desires and wants.

Clifford Stoll

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

John Dewey

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

John Dewey

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

John Ruskin

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

The element of time-travel is handled far more intelligent in Harry Potter.

David Thewlis

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

I think intelligent design should not be taught in the biology classroom.

Michael Ruse

Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

Lazarus Long

A frail elder without the family caregiver won't make it, but if you don't have a sense of who that family caregiver is you don't know what is needed. Assessment is an intelligent step.

Cynthia Epstein

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

Gillian Anderson

Has that shtick about being a dumb country boy, but he's mentally tough and intelligent.

Travis Hafner

It really starts to extend what we call the intelligent information network.

Charles Giancarlo

We were doing it (adding intelligent design to the curriculum) for the students to give them an alternative scientific theory to go along with their biology class, ... We thought we were doing something good for them.

William Buckingham

Jon was a hard-working and appreciative young man. He's a very bright guy, very intelligent. He never did anything other than good work.

Dan O'dowd

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Truman Capote

He is extremely intelligent and when you combine that with fairness, you get a great leader.

David Waller

To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.

Leopold Stein

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

Peter Ustinov

At a point you've asked too much of human beings and it's not intelligent to keep going.

Trevor Fetter

Is there intelligent life on earth? Yes, but I'm only visiting.

Graffiti

He's one of our best athletes on the field, and he's also very intelligent.

Dave Bunton

He knows Hillel as well as anyone coming in, certainly better than the other candidates. He's familiar with the system, he's committed, intelligent, he's attractive and he's got great motivation to do the job.

Michael Steinhardt

In many places in Europe you do have a sense of intelligent development. That's rare in Colorado.

John Fry

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Isadora Duncan

Accountants are dynamic, interesting, highly intelligent, hard-working individuals.

Alexa Loo

She was Daddy's good little girl. That was of that era. She's not ditzy. She's very intelligent. And innocent to the ways of (Earth) that the men had come from.

Anne Francis

Intelligent people would save their protest for the ballot.

Georgina Beyer

She's a creative and intelligent person with a very compassionate soul so she was very, very effective with our older clients.

Judith Stein

People are starting to panic. These are smart, intelligent people.

Bruce Rashbaum

This is the first time that anyone has shown that the brain grows differently in extremely intelligent children.

Paul Thompson

He's a very intelligent player with speed and size and he hits.

Bob Snell

He wrestled very intelligent. He never got himself in trouble.

Jim Smart

Great cover corners are hard to find. He's a very intelligent football player, probably the smartest I've coached in 18 years.

Jeff Weachter

When it's someone like Steven, you just get out of the way and let him do his thing, ... He's just a very brilliant, focused, intelligent guy.

Marshall Herskovitz

Damon's a very intelligent character, ... I certainly wouldn't bet against him having planned it all along.

Andy Ross

America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.

John Walsh

This is ... a stunning admission that the current theories do not explain it, and it has not refuted the idea that things are the product of intelligent cause.

John West

She was so impressed. She said these three students were by far the most intelligent and most articulate that she'd interviewed, and she asked if she could use all three.

Jackie Robertson

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

Michael Lewis

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

Pierre Trudeau

Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.

Bill Schmidt

Laura is very intelligent and she's a great team player. She has the ability to use both feet. She also has great skills and a great attitude.

Frank Smith

I don't have any specific role model. I admire anyone who is strong, confident, intelligent.

Rita Mero

These girls are very bright in general and that helps on the field. They're very intelligent. They can make the quick decisions and see things in the field others might not and they learn very quickly.

Jessica Krupsky

You've got very powerful, very intelligent and very imaginative people on both sides.

Felix Rohatyn

This is an amazingly complex man. Intelligent -- and he was anything but what people take him to be.

Mel Watkins

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Aldo Leopold

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

I was just so proud of our effort, concentration and execution. I thought we played a very intelligent game.

Jeff Larson

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Nora Ephron

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

Stanley Baldwin

Elephants are extremely intelligent and they can be trained to do all sorts of things. What is difficult is to get over their inherent fear of man.

Rory Hensman

Pete is intense and intelligent.

Larry Neal

A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy.

John Kotter

Working with these guys, they all have a few things in common. They're all really funny, they're all very intelligent and very magnetic.

Cheryl Hines

She was a church lady -- very intelligent lady.

Phyllis Miller

Wade is a strong, intelligent kid, who displayed his aggressiveness on Friday.

Dave Whitson

I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.

Marion Berry

He's a smooth, cool, intelligent actor who loves to work.

Dennis Hopper

When you do Shakespeare they think you must be intelligent because they think you understand what you're saying.

Helen Mirren

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Paul J. Meyer

He's highly intelligent. He has strong credentials. He is a conservative, but I think he is mainstream conservative.

Kent Conrad

She's a personality, not only for sports. She is very intelligent, and she's a star outside of sports.

Sergei Bubka

He does have a degree from UCLA. He's not only educated, he's intelligent and he's learned a lot over the years. So he has been a great help.

George Peters

This is a tool, the exhibition is a tool for teaching evolution. It's not necessarily that we're shying away from intelligent design or creationism, but that's not what we do.

Todd Tubutis

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

Fernando Pessoa

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

John Abbott

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

Christian Bale

He's a nice man, intelligent, but he's a horrible neighbor.

Lori Smith

Eryn is very intelligent and knows the game. We also have a good group of young pitchers.

Bruce Poindexter

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

Neal Stephenson

If that's the case, I'd be happy for them to talk about design or intelligent design.

George Pell

I think Gerald is going to blossom in college. He's really special because he's so intelligent, football-wise. He's going to be unbelievable.

John Wrenn

She is very athletic and intelligent. We could tell she was something special when we saw her play.

Mike Sweitzer

Kelly is a very intelligent player. She held that ball the perfect amount of time.

John Planamenta

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.

Chris Martin

When you're sitting at a table with her, she's very charismatic, much like Bill Clinton. She's empathetic, passionate and intelligent.

George Zimmer

He was a smart guy, no doubt about it. He didn't always use his head for the right things, but he was intelligent.

Bruce Norris

She was so intelligent and would grip the meaning of the character. Every discovery she made about a character was supported by the music.

Christopher Hahn

It was spectacular. He showed great power in each of his bouts. He was intelligent tactically. He had a great day.

Keith Morgan

When you're talking to a prime audience bombarded by messages, to have them pay attention to what you say you have to create new and innovative ways to advertise that are more engaging, intelligent and entertaining.

Diego Scotti

I would say Chris is a very intelligent, aggressive tax advocate, and it would be great if every community had someone like him.

Jon Coupal

Not only will we benefit from a steady stream of highly trained, intelligent graduates, but our customers and the community will benefit. It's a win-win-win.

Abe Reichental

The rabbit is considered a kind and intelligent creature in Cambodian culture.

Bugs Bunny

He is an intelligent, impressive man -- as charming as you would expect. He is very interested in people and very concerned about the world and people around the world.

Naomi Robson

I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.

Timothy Leary

I would say Roy Furman is a very substantial, very intelligent financial partner in this enterprise.

Charles Millard

Tara is a smart and intelligent coach.

Carla Mcghee

[Intelligent design] does not provide any natural explanation that can be tested, ... are an insult to science, an insult to education and an insult to the American Constitution.

Francisco Ayala

We were very efficient offensively and intelligent defensively.

Pat Foley

While we get credited with being the evil geniuses (behind intelligent design) . . . it's not like we're at the grass roots.

Discovery Institute

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

Louis Ferdinand Celine

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

Shakira

If you are married, there exists no comfort in being intelligent.

Kehlog Albran

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Jim Morrison

Man is the most intelligent of the animals -- and the most silly.

Diogenes Laertius

It's not a behavioral-synthesis tool, but it is more intelligent than just a translator.

Jan Decaluwe

[But] Stage Beauty ... these two very intelligent actors, who are witty and attractive, got on very well.

Richard Eyre

There were a lot of intelligent viewpoints on both sides.

Richard Becker

We have so little to go on that you can't make an intelligent prognosis.

Arnold Schecter

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Marya Mannes

He's very intelligent with his wrestling. He's a very good counter-wrestler. He's observant, and he lets you make your mistakes.

Rich Blauvelt

An intelligent man who can be an effective communicator. Instead of using his intelligence, they do all these contrived events, with people asking contrived questions.

Arnold Steinberg

We have a very loyal following. Our customers tend to be more intelligent about food and they're more concerned about whether we have fresh herbs and use free-range eggs.

David Roberson

She's more of a batting coach than most of the coaches are. She picks out every little thing. She's just so intelligent.

Paul Marick

All the arguments inserted in the standards are only found in the literature of intelligent design. Teaching the criticisms is teaching ID.

Jack Krebs

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

Graham Greene

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Socrates

She is an intelligent, independent girl who wants to have her own career.

Kate Middleton

I'll remember him like a brother. He was a loyal, intelligent, very caring person.

Hisham Eissa

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

Marty Feldman

He is definitely a realist and he is a very, very, very intelligent guy. He probably is head and shoulders above most politicians in that respect.

David Kimche

Having the ability to make an intelligent decision and not be so fearful -- it's part of survival.

Merium Theiss

If the Intelligent Design theory is not based on faith, but instead another scientific theory, as is claimed, then you must also allow our theory to be taught, as it is also based on science, not on faith.

Bobby Henderson

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

Bob Feller

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

John Viscount Morley

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly.

Protagoras

He is a very intelligent individual, and every capable. There were times when you didn't want to butt heads with him. He knew his stuff.

Hal Patton

They're just apprehensive about 'the new,' ... They're very intelligent animals. They're creatures of habit just like we are.

David Baker

[Fulbright was] always a wonderful, warm, intelligent human being. I enjoyed his intensity. ... You really had to be on your toes.

Gretta Bader

Ryan's our leader offensively and defensively. He's our most intelligent player. He's our leader on the field in every aspect of the game.

Jim Frederick

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

George Orwell

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell

I believe when you recruit a highly intelligent individual, you can teach them more than you can teach someone who is not very intelligent, and they can become a lot better athlete.

Mark Stevenson

He's a good little boy. He's a very intelligent little boy. He's very lucky at this point.

Russ Kingery

He's a very intelligent guy, very dedicated, very principled.

Jay Eisenhofer

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

Auberon Herbert

He was very intelligent. He was a good looking man. He was very fastidious, had a lot of friends, was a hard worker. He was a cadet navigator with the ambition of being an aircraft designer.

Leane Ross

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Alan Turing

Hernando County is a really exciting area. We feel there is a tremendous opportunity for intelligent growth.

John Heagney

Intelligent design is not valid science.

Hunter Rawlings

One guy was ordered to stay in there and not come out. Being intelligent, he did exactly what they told him to.

Jonathan Carroll

I think the public is becoming more sophisticated and intelligent about this issue.

Lance Lindsey

Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met.

Carole Lombard

It's like an incredibly intelligent librarian who knows everything about that company.

Jim Mcgann

An intelligent airline these days is not going to be in a rush to get out of Chapter 11.

William Rochelle

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

Wilfred Sheed

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas Père

An articulate, intelligent man full of integrity who loves his community.

David Lewis

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

J. B. S. Haldane

The coalfield authority was designed to be an economic development organization, ... The board of directors is made up of business people who have made intelligent decisions about how to invest our funds. We're not ashamed of that.

Charles Yates

The SS were the men in black. He was proud to be a man in black and they were pleased to have him. He always wanted to be the best and he was more intelligent than those around him.

Gerda Kopkow

They might not think that this guy is very intelligent.

Larry Foote

It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.

Daniel S. Greenberg

We're happy to have him. He's got a good understanding of the scheme ... plus, he's got a good football mind. He's very intelligent.

Ted Cottrell

Border collies are energetic, intelligent, keen, alert and responsive, ... They're especially agile. In agility contests, they're always at the top of the podium.

Lisa Peterson

A very intelligent, articulate man.

Brian Nichols

The employees of Boeing are wise, and they are intelligent, and they are thoughtful, and they know what we need to do.

Alan R. Mulally

Intelligent design is ultimately a science stopper.

Eugenie Scott

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Eugene Debs

Make no mistake [board members] knew intelligent design was a form of creationism when they added it to the curriculum.

Eric Rothschild

A teacher's view on intelligent design.

Eric Hicks

We're not for uncontrolled borders, but we should have intelligent and humane borders like Canada or Europe.

Enrique Morones

We have to be intelligent with our pitchers and not get too aggressive. We wouldn't want to use somebody we want available for the weekend, too. Both coaching staffs would agree on that.

Ed Servais