Dean Devlin Quotes

I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.

Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.

You can't say Charles doesn't know what he's talking about.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.

Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

The smartest geek I know.

He was a walking library.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.

Carlos, on paper, and Carlos, the guy who was in jail, is known to be a cultivated guy, the guy who handles big amounts of information, and for me, that was very important.

David Milch is one of the smartest human beings I've ever met. I'm relatively bright and relatively well-read. I'm not in a league with that guy.

We're quite fortunate on 'The Chase,' we get to sit very still and you can concentrate on one thing at one time - the questions.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

If a man’s house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.