“There is no method but to be very intelligent.”

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

“There are three types of intelligent persons: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so little intelligent that he will believe anything. I knew I belonged to the second kind.”

“Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.”

“Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)”

“Like all intelligent people, she functions very well in extreme disorder.”