Smarter Quotes - page 2

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter. View quote
F. Lee Bailey
I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends. View quote
Tim McGraw
A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this. View quote
Steven Pressfield
I know that YouTube has made me smarter just by having to think about my views and how to defend them. View quote
Scott Clifton
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it. View quote
Stephen King
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body. View quote
Warren Buffett
The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed. View quote
Douglas Engelbart
Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we don't know very much in economics. (Thomas Piketty)
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics. View quote
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train. View quote
Phyllis McGinley
With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean. View quote
David Zinczenko
All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners. View quote
James Surowiecki
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them. View quote
James Surowiecki
That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense. View quote
Etgar Keret
It's actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you're dealing drugs. If you get caught you're going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it's much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none. (Kevin Mitnick)
We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land. View quote
Sebastiao Salgado
Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people ... or find a different room.. View quote
Michael Dell
The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide. View quote
Keri Hulme
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. View quote
Russell Simmons