For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.
With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.
Every woman is multifaceted. Every woman has a switch, whether she's going to be maternal, whether she's going to be a man-eater, whether she has to kick ass, whether she has to be one of the boys, whether she has to show the guys that she's just as smart or smarter, she's just as talented or creative. Women suppress a lot of their sides.
It doesn’t matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.
I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter. ' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.
I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth draft, then that can just be part of how I've assembled the character, and then we can move on and move forward with it. In general, I don't ever want to feel smarter than my characters, because I just feel like that's not a great way to write a story.
President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.
Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.
People really have to start being a smarter consumer, read labels, and understand what hidden sugars are.
I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.
You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together. . . there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart. . . I'll always be with you.
Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.
There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
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.