Jose Ferreira Quotes

Genius: the superhuman in man.

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

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.

I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.

Singapore admires America's dynamism, vibrancy, and capacity for self-renewal. These qualities attract the best and brightest from around the world.

Terry Gilliam is one of the greatest brains I ever met.

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.

I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.

Having one of the highest IQs ever measured is as much a curse as it is a blessing. My parents were great, though: they were always seeking the most difficult presents possible for me - Rubik's cubes and things like that.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

Genius is its own end.

Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost.

and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.