I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.