Intelligence vs. Experience

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute ...

Borrowed Brains

I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

Information Overload

[T]he very amount of information that computers make available threatens us with cognitive overload: overwhelmed with facts, people tend to mistake data ...

Identity and the Census

In "A Portrait of America," Newsweek (1/17/83) poked some fun at the national census:

"Give your name and age and business. Is your husband ...

Good Thinking

The greatest mistake of education has been to assume that intelligent people are automatically good thinkers. High intelligence does not ensure effective ...

Heart over Mind

I look upon myself as a dull person. I take more time than others in understanding some things. But I do not care. There is a limit to man's progress ...