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I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.