Smarter Quotes - Page 3

• I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

  Larry Wall

  Language, Computer, Ambiguous

  Source: bigthink.com

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• One of the things I noticed about the world was - it's funny, in the movie business, you meet a kind of guy who has a lot of money, whether they came by it as an actor or film-studio owner, and you realize these people aren't any smarter than you might be, or any more decent than you might be. It's just this weird fate of the world that it broke one way for someone.

  Steven Conrad

  Fate, People, Guy

  "The Promotion's Seann William Scott and Steve Conrad". Interview with David Wolinsky, film.avclub.com. June 9, 2008.

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• Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

  Eli Roth

  People, Film, Tarantino

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

  Stephen Hawking

  Parent, Apes, Ancestor

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 8, 2015.

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• Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

  Barry Schuler

  God, Soul, Use

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• That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

  Jimmy Iovine

  Life, Graduation, Smart

  Jimmy Iovine's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, news.usc.edu. May 17, 2013.

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• Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

  Douglas Adams

  War, Believe, Humility

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• But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

  Tom Peters

  Trying, Stuff, Way

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• They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

  Amy Hempel

  Dog, Smart, Knows

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Evolution, Capricious, Callous

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I’m as old as both of you,” she said, even though she suspected she wasn’t, “and I’m smarter, and I can probably fight as well as you can.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fighting, Said, Wells

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.40, Penguin

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• When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life. Have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

  Steve Jobs

  Wall, Growing Up, Fun

  "Steve Jobs in Pbs Doc: You Can Change the World" by Josh Lowensohn, www.cnet.com. November 02, 2011.

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• It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Girl, Pain

  Emma Forrest (2011). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has been. We've followed our leaders, and sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; we do what they say and we play our part. But this is our decision. Our mission. And when we're done, it will be our victory, or our defeat. I don't want to fail, but if I do, I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did that. I failed. That was all me.

  Dan Wells

  Winning, Order, Play

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• One day when I was fourteen, I told Charlie that I hated Mother. “Don’t hate her, Jo,” he told me. “Feel sorry for her. She’s not near as smart as you. She wasn’t born with your compass, so she wanders around, bumping into all sorts of walls. That’s sad.” I understood what he meant, and it made me see Mother differently. But wasn’t there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn’t seem fair.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Mother, Wall, Sorry

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• Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?” “On occasion,” said Locke. “There are contrary opinions.

  Scott Lynch

  Pigs, Opinion, Said

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1698, Del Rey

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• Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Writing, Assuming, Protect You

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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  Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Funny, Military, Humorous

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• I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Years, Desire

  Source: thekingsenglish.wordpress.com

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• Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: everything around us that we call life was made up of people that are no smarter than you. And you can build your own things and you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life, don't live one, find your opportunities and always be sexy.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Sexy, Opportunity, Simple

  "Ashton Kutcher Channels Steve Jobs In The Best 'Teen Choice Awards' Acceptance Speech Ever". Ashton Kutcher's acceptance speech for Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, www.businessinsider.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Sweet, People, Classroom

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• I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

  Source: thepointmag.com

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