Intelligence

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before - Kurt Vonnegut http://j.mp/Y9rCDo

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex - Aldous Huxley

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein, (1879-1955)

It often seems that organisations are less intelligent than the humans within them. They make costly mistakes and few survive beyond half a human lifetime. Yet, more heads are better than one". So what goes wrong? One problem is that of 'group think' where a certain herd instinct takes over from individual common sense - from The Unintelligent Enterprise, 1993

It is not individuals (or the masses) who change the world, but twosomes. It is couples who create the next generation. It is in private meetings between two individuals that we learn how to exchange encouragement and to feel what another person feels. Big changes are superficial unless they are the sum of a lot of little changes in the way we understand and treat one another. Our life stories are dominated by the encounters we have had with particular individuals, and by our constant search for new encounters. The underprivileged are those who meet only other underprivileged people and can create no spark between them. They need intermediaries to bring about other sorts of encounter http://www.oxfordmuse.com/museideas/futurework.htm

Intelligent people, when assembled into an organisation, will tend toward collective stupidity - Karl Albrecht

Intelligent people, when assembled into an organisation, will tend toward collective stupidity - (thus states Albrecht's Law, proposed by management consultant Karl Albrecht

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex - Aldous Huxley