Smart Quotes

• One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.

  Alva Noe

  Machines, Pseudo, Worried

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• Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Crazy, Moving

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• I really choose by what I like, i thought 'Alexander' was a super smart script. Just [costar] Steve [Carell] alone would have been enough. Gosh, I love working with that guy. He's just the best.

  Jennifer Garner

  Love, Guy, Scripts

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• Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Dumb, Actresses, Bombshells

  "Rarely-Before-Seen Marilyn Monroe Photos Show Sex Symbol Just Before She Died" by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. May 30, 2007.

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• I play dumb like Jessica Simpson plays dumb. But we know exactly what we're doing. We're smart blondes.

  Paris Hilton

  Play, Dumb, Jessica

  "Paris Hilton: “I Play Dumb Like Jessica Simpson Plays Dumb. But We Know Exactly What We’re Doing”...", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I think we need to get smart enough to do what's going to help us and not just continue to do things that are going to hurt us. It's pretty easy to read something or hear about it in a message, but it's that personal application of that where it's just you, God, and your problems, that are going to give you the power to get stronger and stronger.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Hurt, Thinking

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• It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Football, Sex

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.

  Pharrell Williams

  Disappointment, Eye, Storm

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• This is a competitive business - there are a lot of women who want these jobs, but experience, education, and smarts go a long way. I'm still figuring it out - I learn new things every day. Once you stop learning, you should get out of the business. It's just really about being hungry for more.

  Nicole Lapin

  Jobs, Long, Want

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• What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

  Ato Essandoh

  Nice, Thinking, Engineering

  "'Copper's' Ato Essandoh: 'I Look at Doctor Who'". Interview with Jacqueline Cutler, screenertv.com. June 30, 2013.

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• I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Dark, Thinking

  "Doug Liman: How to Make an Original Hollywood Blockbuster". Interview with Garin Pirnia, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2014.

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• No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Good Life, Responsibility, Fate

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• Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Stupid, People, Enough

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• Make it smart. Make it beautiful. Have fun.

  Lee Clow

  Beautiful, Fun, Having Fun

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• It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Beautiful, Names, Differences

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.129, Princeton University Press

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• My teacher in the seventh grade told me that if I didn't fool around during class, I could have 15 minutes at the end of the day to do a comedy routine. Instead of bugging everybody, I'd figure out my routine. And at the end of the day, I'd get to perform in front of my entire class. I thought it was really smart of her. It's amazing how important that was.

  Jim Carrey

  Teacher, Class, The End Of The Day

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• For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the universe is an unfolding bud, then I am a part of its creative surge, along with the flowing of water and the growing of pines. I can find a kind of camaraderie in this universe, once I recover from the astonishment of it. Or maybe not camaraderie exactly. What is the opposite of loneliness?

  Kathleen Moore

  Loneliness, Blessed, Thinking

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• Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.

  Peter Drucker

  Frustration, Years, Effort

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• It doesn't matter what size you are. It matters how big your heart is and how smart you are.

  Freddy Adu

  Heart, Matter, Size

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• I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

  Garson Kanin

  People, Ignorant, World

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• I love a smart girl and a girl who loves her family!

  Lil Romeo

  Girl, Smart Girl

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• Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.

  Guy Maddin

  Goal, Feelings, Knows

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• We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.

  Carl Sagan

  Pieces, Enough

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• When we were young, there weren't very many smart people in the investment world. You should have seen the people in the bank trust departments. Now, there are armies of smart people at private investment funds, etc . If there were a crisis now, there would be a lot more people with a lot of money ready to take advantage.

  Charlie Munger

  Army, Should Have, People

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• If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Stars, Rocks, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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