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We're all born with different talents. I'm really not that smart, but I can see things - financially and development-wise. It's just the way we're made.

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.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we've misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.

For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.