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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.: Benoit Mandelbrot
...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.: G.H. Hardy
There is no place for the incompetent - there are few hiding places in these organizations. Do not look to the new intelligent organizations with their intelligent machines and their cultures of consent for days of gossipy coffee breaks or for boring but untaxing jobs. The culture of consent is not, as the British would say, going to be everyone's cup of tea unless they are educated and prepared for it. There lies the challenge for our society.: Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister: Su Tung-p'o
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.: Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.: Remy de Gourmont
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.: Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.: Tom Wolfe (1931 - ), "Bonfire of the Vanities"

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