“If intellectual power is to be developed, we must somehow construct amplifiers for intelligence — devices that, supplied with a little intelligence, will emit a lot.”

“Intellectual is not necessarily intelligent either.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“The computer constitutes the first human construction that aspired to amplify mental rather than physical human powers.”

Yiannis Laouris (1958) Cypriot neuroscientist

“The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

“The advance of intelligence diminished, as a secondary consequence, the “possible” in a realm which appeared foreign to intelligence: that of inner experience.
To say “diminished” is even to say too little. The development of intelligence leads to a drying up of life which, in return, has narrowed intelligence. It is only if I state this principle: “inner experience itself is authority” that I emerge from this impotence.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

“Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like small children playing with a bomb. Such is the mismatch between the power of our plaything and the immaturity of our conduct. Superintelligence is a challenge for which we are not ready now and will not be ready for a long time. We have little idea when the detonation will occur, though if we hold the device to our ear we can hear a faint ticking sound.”

Nick Bostrom book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

“Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence.”

John Tyndall (1820–1893) British scientist

“What shall we say of the Intelligence that plans all this? Can the Creator be less than the creature? Shall we not say that Intelligence is indestructible, and its measure is its Power to adapt means to ends? Intelligence, Matter, Energy — nature's trinity in her manifestations.”

Elisha Gray (1835–1901) American electrical engineer