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All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.

There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.

I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.