Jamais Cascio Quotes

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

Brains are no good if you don't use them.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.