The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.
I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
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