You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which read more

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a read more

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.