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Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron, p.1
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Mark Clifton, in Star, Bright. Originally published in Galaxy magazine (July 1952); collected in Fadiman (ed.) The Mathematical Magpie, p. 73
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Mark Clifton, in Star, Bright. Originally published in Galaxy magazine (July 1952); collected in Fadiman (ed.) The Mathematical Magpie, p. 75
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Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind (1988).
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Men of limited intelligence are so exposed to boredom and this is due to their intellect’s being absolutely nothing but the medium of motives for their will. Now if at the moment there are no motives to be taken up, the will rests and the intellect takes a holiday since the one, like the other, does not become active of its own accord. The result is a terrible stagnation of all the powers of the entire man, in a word boredom. To ward off this, men now present the will with trivial motives that are merely temporary and are taken at random in order to rouse it and thus bring into action the intellect that has to interpret them.
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Michelangelo, The Artist, Longfellow's translation.
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Mind
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) Epistemology and Subtractive Knowledge, p. 78.
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Nicolas Chamfort, Reflections, D. Parmée, trans. (London: 2003) #68
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No doubt, sulking populists in every era stay mean as weasels because they despise any form of superior intelligence except shrewdness.
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Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game p. 128
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Perhaps, in spite of her brilliance, she’s too young to realize the hostility of the world toward intelligence.
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Peter Medawar, Advice to a Young Scientist (1979).
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Peter Medawar, Advice to a Young Scientist (1979).
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President Grover Cleveland at the celebration of the sesquicentennial of Princeton College (October 22, 1896).