A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. – Alan Turing
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? – Auberon Herbert
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. – Bryant H. McGill
If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we’d probably all do it. But I don’t know that there is a recipe for creating that. – Amanda Peet
We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature. – Adolph Green
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground. – Ben Carson
Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don’t try that again. – Burt Rutan
If you’re showing people where it’s smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they’re either not terribly intelligent or they’re not doing something well. – Christopher Guest
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary. – Alan Kay
‘Sherlock’ fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they’ve gone through my back catalogue and got what I’ve done, why and how I’ve done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me. – Benedict Cumberbatch
I think the Clintons are brilliant. I’ve never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They’re too smart for Washington. – Chevy Chase
Actually, I’m for football. But I’m for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are. – Bennet Omalu
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although… he may be permitted to be an intellectual. – Anthony Burgess
I’m intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world. – Adam Levine
I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way. – Bruce Davison
I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did. – Candice Bergen
It’s crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know. – Aldis Hodge
Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness. – Alice Morse Earle
If some people think it shows a feminine side to be in the theater, I’ve never felt that. And I’ll openly say that an intelligent person who is a sensitive person will be and should be in touch with their inner female. – Anthony Warlow
Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production. – Paul Hawken
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization. – Fidel Castro
Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested. – Milla Jovovich
