Quotes about smart
smart writing two
You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart. Tony Hillerman
smart computer internet
All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God… Steve Wozniak
smart team responsibility
I care about this state... and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we're on the right track. Steve Mariucci
smart thinking phones
If you look at the economics of Nokia, roughly half of the company, half of the business, half of how we think about the business is focused on those emerging markets and on those lower-priced devices. But, of course, people who are aspirational and buying those lower-priced devices today are looking at smart phones tomorrow, and so forth. Stephen Elop
smartphones select brands
Work is underway to select the go-forward smartphone brand. Stephen Elop
smart people coaches
If you put good people around you, I guess you're smart. You learn from them and that makes you a better coach. Tony DiCicco
smart player games
I don't know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still pick up things. If you watch individual players you will see genius. Tony DiCicco
smart mean environment
And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn't know how to identify smart and not smart. They called me the best, when I knew I wasn't, and they called him the worst, when he was the best. I mean, there could be no more antipodal environment. So I began to question: What is intelligence? Who says? Who says you're smart? Who says you're not smart? And what do they mean by that? Tony Buzan
smart genius spots
I'm no genius, but I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots. Tom Watson
smart coffee animal
It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk in the fridge to go sour; that everyday functional things will outlive us and prove that we weren't ready to go; that we weren't smart or knowing or heroic; that we were just animals whose animal bodies stopped working without any sort of schedule or any consent from us. Steven Hall
smart ideas perspective
What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart. Steven Johnson
smart crowds individual
This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network. Steven Johnson
smart blue lessons
I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart. Steve Burns
smart years apples
You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion phones a year are all smart, the software that's gonna be most popular in those phones is gonna be software that's sold by somebody who doesn't make their own phones. Steve Ballmer
smart crazy people
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. Stephen Hawking
smart machines way
A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it. Stanislaw Lem
smart pride successful
I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart. Steven Moffat
smart angel gun
The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap if you're smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap. Angel Bob: And what would that be, sir? The Doctor: Me. [fires] Steven Moffat
smart makeup judging
Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of matter, with many ways for things to go wrong and only a few ways for things to go right. We are certain to die, and smart enough to know it. Our minds are adapted to a world that no longer exists, prone to misunderstandings correctable only by arduous education, and condemned to perplexity about the deepest questions we can ascertain. Steven Pinker
smart home support
Nest is one vertical implementation of a set of smart products for the home. But we will support other peoples smart products for the home. Sundar Pichai
smart commitment space
Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available. Steven Weber
smart accepting
I didn't accept it. I received it. Richard Allen
smart risk
Taking smart risks can be very gratifying. Reed Hastings
smart college people
It was a time of turmoil at colleges and universities. And I saw some very smart people and very privileged people behaving irresponsibly. And I couldn't help making a contrast between some of the worst of what I saw on the campus and the good sense and the decency of the people back in my own community. Samuel Alito
smart men lazy
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with. Sydney J. Harris
smart eye use
Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you. Scott Westerfeld
smart differences people
People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. Scott Adams
smart civilization intelligence
We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. Scott Adams
smart clueless intelligent
Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy. Scott Adams
smart humor matter
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. Scott Adams
smart two trouble
There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things. Joss Whedon
smart firefly serenity
If you can't do something smart, do something right. Joss Whedon
smart school littles
I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower. Kim Kardashian