Quote

Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.