I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. ”

I started with Apple, in a pre-Windows era when PCs seemed to involve more of a learning curve. But the fact that I'm yet to acquire so much as a single virus still seems a very good thing. ”

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything. ”

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ”

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. ”

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. ”

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. ”

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me. ”

The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people. ”

My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaws amplified by limited education, limited social range, and questionable influence from some of his advisers. ”