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"Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy." "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." "The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy "The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking." "Genius is the ability to avoid work by doing it right the first time." — old saying
"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do." "Improvement makes straight roads; "If the brain were so simple we could understand it, "Most people would sooner die than think. In fact, they do." "Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, "When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this "The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth." "Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard "A genius is one who can do anything except make a living." — Joey Adams [1911-99]
"There's nothing as stupid as an educated man, "Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; "The only thing that makes a man able to get along in this world is his brain. A man doesn't have the claws
— John Dewey [1859-1952]
— Henry Ford [1863-1947]
when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."
— A.A. Milne [1882-1956]
— Martin Heidegger [1889-1976]
— B.F. Skinner [1904-90]
but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."
— William Blake [1757–1827]
[then] we would be so simple [that] we couldn't."
— Lyall Watson
— Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]
terrify people, cleanse the air."
— Søren Kierkegaard [1813-55]
sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
— Jonathan Swift [1667–1745]
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1749-1832]
by which to weigh them."
— Joseph Joubert [1754-1824]
if you get him off the thing that he is educated in."
— Will Rogers [1879-1935]
genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
— Samuel T. Coleridge [1772-1834]
of a bear, nor the strength of a bull. He doesn't have the nose of a wolf, nor the wings of a hawk,
but he has a brain. You're going to get along in this world as long as you use it."
— Louis L'Amour [1908-88], in "Down The Long Hills", 1968
Books On Thinking & Intelligence
from 1910 to 2000
 | "How We Think: A Restatement of The Relation of Reflective Thinking To The Educative Process" [1910 classic] by John Dewey [1859-1952]
Kindle Edition from Public Domain Books [3/2006 edition] for FREE Dover 8½x5½ pb [10/97] for $8.95 B.N. Publishing, Chile 9x6 hardcover [7/2009] for $17.93 Wadsworth Publng 7½x5 hardcover [rev 8/97] for $82.95 |
 | "Ideas Are Weapons: The History & Uses of Ideas" [1939 classic] by Max Lerner [1902-1992] Transaction Publrs 9¼x6¼ pb [1/91] for $34.95 |
 | "The Art of Seeing" [1942 classic] by Aldous Huxley Creative Arts 8½x5½ pb [10/82] out of print/used |
 | "The House of Intellect: How Intellect, The Prime Force In Western Civilization, Is Being Destroyed By Our Culture In The Name of Art, Science, and Philanthropy" [1959] by Jacques Barzun [1907-2012]
Harper Perennial Modern Classics 8x5¼ pb [12/2002] out of print/many used Praeger 8¾x5½ hardcover [3/78] for $90.25 {sic} Harper 8¼x5½ hardcover [1959] out of print/50+ used |
 | "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" [1962 classic] by Thomas S. Kuhn [1922-96] Univ of Chicago Press 8x5¼ pb [3rd 11/96] for $10.40 8¼x5½ hardcover [3rd 9/96] for $27.50 Books On Demand pb [2nd edition 12/70] out of print/used |
 | "Creativity & Intelligence: Explorations With Gifted Students" [1962 classic] by Jacob W. Getzels & Philip W. Jackson John Wiley & Sons hardcover [1963] out of print/used John Wiley & Sons 9¼x6 hardcover [12/62] out of print/used |
 | "Anti-Intellectualism In American Life" [1963 classic] by Richard Hofstadter won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Vintage 8x5 pb [2/66] for $12.24 Knopf 9½x7 hardcover [5/63] out of print/used |
 | "The Origin of Consciousness In The Breakdown of The Bicameral Mind" [1976] by Julian Jaynes Houghton Mifflin 9¼x6 pb [8/2000] for $14.40 Houghton Mifflin hardcover [1976] out of print/used |
 | "Sentience" [1976] by Wallace I. Matson
Univ CA Press pb [10/82] out of print/used Univ CA Press hardcover [2/76] out of print/used |
 | "Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences" [1983] by Howard Gardner Basic Books 9¼x6 pb [3/93] for $14.00 Basic Books hardcover [12/83] out of print/used |
 | "The Society of Mind" [1987] by Marvin L. Minsky {co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T.} Touchstone 11x8½ pb [3/88] for $11.20 S&S hardcover [2/87] out of print/used |
 | "The Oxford Companion To The Mind" [1987] Edited by Richard L. Gregory Oxford Univ Press 9¼x7 2nd edition hardcover [12/2004] for $73.75 {sic} Oxford Univ Press 9¼x7 2nd edition hardcover [12/2004] out of print/many used Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [1998] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press 9x6 pb [9/87] out of print/50+ used Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/87] for $12.95 |
 | "Edward de Bono's Thinking Course" [1988] Facts On File 9x6 pb [9/94] out of print/used Sagebrush hardcover [9/94] for $24.85 |
 | "The Design of Everyday Things" [1988] by Donald A. Norman Basic Books 8¼x5½ pb [9/2002] for $11.53 Basic Books 9x6 hardcover [4/88] for $30.00 author's official website • author's entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Intellect: Mind Over Matter" [1990] by Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001] Collier Books 8½x5½ pb [10/93] out of print/many used Scribner 8¾x5¾ board book [3/90] out of print/many used |
 | "Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques" [1991] by Michael Michalko Ten Speed Press 9x7½ 2nd edition pb [6/2006] for $13.57 Ten Speed Press 9x7¼ pb [11/91] out of print/many, many used |
 | "Shadows of The Mind: A Search For The Missing Science of Consciousness" [1994] by Roger Penrose Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [8/96] for $15.30 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/94] for $0.00 |
 | "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and The Human Brain" [1994] by Antonio R. Damasio Neuroscientist Damasio shows that the concept of the dualist separation of mind & body and of rationality & emotion proposed by René Descartes is invalid; modern science (led by Damasio) now holds that the body and our emotions both have a key role in the way we think and in rational decision-making. Kindle Edition from Penguin Books [2005 edition] for $12.99 Penguin Books 7¾x5 pb [9/2005] for $10.88 Picador 9x6¼ hardcover [4/95] out of print/used Picador 9x6½ hardcover [1994] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Bell Curve: Intelligence & Class Structure In American Life" [1994] by Richard J. Herrnstein & Charles Murray see also "Inequality by Design" [1996] below Free Press 9¼x6 pb [1/96] out of print/many used Free Press 9½x6¾ hardcover [4/99] out of print/used |
 | "The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create The Dynamics of Innovation" [1995] by Ikujiro Nonaka & Hirotaka Takeuchi Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/95] for $29.24 |
 | "Inequality By Design: Cracking The Bell Curve Myth" [1996] by Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler & Kim Voss a comprehensive refutation and expansion of Herrnstein & Murray's "The Bell Curve" [1994] {included above} Princeton Univ Press 9x6 pb [7/96] for $24.95 Princeton Univ Press hardcover [7/96] out of print/used |
 | "Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society" [1996] by Aaron Lynch Basic Books 8x5¼ pb [1/99] out of print/used Basic Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/96] out of print/used |
 | "The Human Brain: A Guided Tour" [1997] by Susan A. Greenfield Phoenix pb [7/98] for $6.99 Basic Books 9¼x6 hardcover [6/97] out of print/used |
 | "How The Mind Works" [1997] by Steven Pinker
W.W.Norton 9¼x6 pb [1/99] for $12.57 W.W.Norton 9½x6½ hardcover [10/97] out of print/used Audio Scholar ABR cassette [1/2000] out of print/used |
 | "Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists & Madmen" [1998] by Clifford A. Pickover Quill 9¼x6 pb [6/99] for $11.20 Plenum Press hardcover [5/98] out of print/used |
 | "Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius" [1998] by Michael Michalko Ten Speed Press 9x7 pb [6/2001] for $13.59 Ten Speed Press 9¼x7½ hardcover [7/98] out of print/used |
 | "The Enchantment of Reason" [1998] by Pierre Schlag Duke Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [8/98] for $21.95 Duke Univ Press 9¾x6½ hardcover [8/98] for $76.94 |
 | "If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge & Best Practice" [1998] by Carla O'Dell & C. Jackson Grayson Jr., with Nilly Essaides Free Press 9½x6½ hardcover [11/98] for $18.90 |
 | "The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion In The Making of Consciousness" [1999] by Antonio Damasio Neuroscientist Damasio's thesis here is that the individual's sense of self arises from man's need to map relations between self and others. this book is not available on Kindle at Amazon Mariner Books 9x6 pb [10/2000] for $9.88 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 9x6½ hardcover [9/99] out of print/100+ used |
 | "The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero" [1999] by Robert Kaplan "The best popular mathematics book ever written." – Margaret Wertheim, L.A. Times Book Review Oxford Univ Press pb [1/2001] for $9.56 Oxford Univ Press 8¾x6 hardcover [10/99] for $40.00 |
 | "The Big Test: The Secret History of The American Meritocracy" [1999] by Nicholas Lemann FS&G 8¾x6 pb [11/2000] for $11.56 FS&G 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/99] out of print/used |
 | "Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences For The 21st Century" [1999] by Howard Gardner Basic Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2000] for $18.00 Basic Books 9¾x6½ hardcover [11/99] out of print/used |
 | "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference" [2000] by Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2002] for $14.95 Little, Brown 8¼x5¾ hardcover [2/2000] for $15.72 TimeWarner ABR audio CD [1/2005] for $16.31 TimeWarner ABR audio [2/2000] for $12.23 |
 | "The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery" [2000] by Abraham Pais
contains Introduction and chapters on: Niels Bohr, Max Born, Paul Dirac, Albert Einstein, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Res Jost, Oskar Klein, Hendrik Kramers, Tsung Dao Lee & Chen Ning Yang, John von Neumann, Wolfgang Pauli, Isidor I. Rabi, Robert Serber, George Uhlenbeck, Viktor Weisskopf, and Eugene Wigner Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2000] out of print/used |
 | "The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent: Selected Essays" [2000] by Lionel Trilling, edited by Leon Wieseltier FS&G 8¼x5½ pb [10/2001] for $13.60 FS&G 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2000] out of print/used |
 | "Enabling Knowledge Creation: How To Unlock The Mystery of Tacit Knowledge & Release The Power of Innovation" [2000] by Georg von Krogh, Kazuo Ichijo & Ikujiro Nonaka Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2000] for $28.43 |
 | "Bowling Alone: The Collapse & Revival of American Community" [2000] by Robert D. Putnam S&S 8½x5½ pb [8/2001] for $10.88 S&S 9½x6 hardcover [6/2000] out of print/used |
 | "The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language" [2000] by Steven Pinker Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [11/2000] for $10.50 |
 | "The Road Since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993 With An Autobiographical Interview" [2000] by Thomas S. Kuhn, edited by James Conant & John Haugeland Univ of Chicago Press 8½x6.6 pb [1/2003] for $12.60 Univ of Chicago Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2000] for $17.00 |
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Selected Movies & Television
"American Genius" TV mini-series [National Geographic Channel June 2015]
 | Eight episodes that 'reveal the competitive forces behind history's most remarkable races for innovation': "Colt vs. Wesson" (firearms), "Tesla vs. Edison" (electric power), "Hearst vs. Pulitzer" (newspapers), "Wright vs. Curtiss" (aeroplanes), "Sarnoff vs. Farnsworth" (television), "Oppenheimer vs. Heisenberg" (the atomic bomb), "Space Race" (U.S.A. vs. Russia), "Gates vs. Jobs" {personal computers) • Then again, "This program includes dramatizations inspired by history. Some events have been altered for dramatic purposes."
Fox widescreen color DVD [10/2015] 2 disks - SOLD OUT ! Amazon Instant Video [2015] HD episode purchase $1.99 each, HD season purchase $11.99 {saves $3.93} series credits at IMDb |
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Episode #1: "Jobs vs. Gates"
Two visionaries with different theories about the coming computer revolution: one thinking that controlling the hardware and the operating system is the way to go, the other thinking that controlling the operating system is the way to go. • Directed by Paul Abascal; written by Chelsea Coates & Nicholas Greene; narrated by Jeff Wilburn; starring Joseph Varca {as Steve Jobs [1955-2011]}, Artie Brennan {as Paul Allen}, {Bill Gates not portrayed?}, Evan I. Schwartz (author of "The Last Lone Inventor"), Scott Bolger, Vaughn Bullard, Ethan Dobler, Vince Eisenson, Dakota James Alden Lane, Johnna Leary, Benjamin Loeh, James Matthew Poole, William H. Powers, John Hawthorne Smith, Jake Swing, Chuck Taber, Richard Walz Sr., John Wilkins III, John A. Taylor • episode credits at IMDb watch full episode [10/2015 upload; 39:53] online at YouTube Episode #2: "Wright Brothers vs. Curtiss"
Episode #3: "Hearst vs. Pulitzer"
Episode #4: "Colt vs. Wesson"
Episode #5: "Farnsworth vs. Sarnoff"
Episode #6: "Oppenheimer vs Heisenberg"
Episode #7: "Space Race"
Episode #8: "Edison vs Tesla"
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"Mental Samurai" game show series [Warner Unscripted/Fox - March 2019 to July 2021]
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Announced August 2018; game show that challenges contestants on mental abilities (or something): 'a nerve-shredding test of smarts like no other' with special rotating set; international versions filmed in Dubar, Finland, Portugal Produced & hosted by actor Rob Lowe official series homepage • IMDb listing • series entry at Wikipedia |
"High Potential" [ABC-TV/Hulu/Disney+ 2024-2025]
 | tagline 'The new face of investigation' • A single mom with three kids working as a police department cleaner rearranges some evidence during her shift and helps solve an unsolvable crime . . .; based on the French television series "HPI - Haut Potentiel Intellectuel" [2024-2025]; second season has been greenlit 25 total producers are listed, including actress Kaitlin Olson; 10 total directors are listed; 19 total writers are listed; starring Kaitlin Olson {as Morgan Gillory}, Daniel Sunjata {as Adam Karadec}, Javicia Leslie, Deniz Akdeniz, Amirah J, Matthew Lamb, Judy Reyes, Taran Killam, J.D. Pardo, Garret Dilla-hunt, T.J. Lee, Hudson Macready, Anthony Darrell, Domenick Lombardozzi, Jocko Sims, Ariella Amar, Derek Richardson, Eliza Coupe, Steve Guttenberg, Nasim Pedrad, Nona Parker Johnson, Addison Timlin, Madeline Zima, Graham Rogers, Kathleen Munroe, Alison Jaye, Tom Butler, Alaman Diadhiou, Dana Ashbrook, Russell Wong, Irina Dubova, Melinda Page Hamilton, Christopher Cousins, Michael Trotter, Lynn Chen, Rob LaBelle, Ben Bode, C.J. Salvador, Sean Patrick Thomas, Jonathan Chase, Charlie McElveen, Kayvon Esmaili, Marshall Cook, Amy Davidson, Maia Jae, Kerry O'Malley, Carlin James, Chris-topher Matthew Cook, C.K. Bolado, Natasha Elías, Melanie Liburd, Briana Venskus, David Gridley, Ryan Devlin, Adam Kantor, Audrey Wasilewski, Sarah Smyth, Rafael Castillo, Tristen MacDonald, Nicole Chanel Williams, Lucas Kavner, Mark Dancewicz, Marguerite Moreau, Beau Billingslea, Rory O'Malley, Diandra Lyle, Paul James Jordan, Maurice Hall, Merrick McCartha, Adam Hagenbuch, Brennan Keel Cook, Sebastien Roberts, Moneer Yaqubi, Lawrence |
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full credits at IMDb • official series homepage • series entry at Wikipedia 
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • Season 1 Amazon Instant Video [9/2024] HD rental $2.99, HD purchase $29.99 watch Season 1 - 13 episodes [] FREE online {with many ads} at ABC-TV website |
"H.P.I. - Haut Potentiel Intellectuel" TV series [TF1-TV France 2021-2025]
 | While working at night as a cleaning lady in a police station, Morgane can’t resist 'tidying up' the elements on an investigation board. When the cops return the next day, they realize she’s brought them a giant step closer to finding the suspect. It turns out Morgane has High Intellectual Potential; but her 160 IQ has never really helped in her everyday life! After questioning her and testing her method, the police decide to bring her on board to help them solve further cases; location filming in Lille, Northern France • 11 total producers are listed; 6 total directors are listed; written by creators Alice Chegaray-Breugnot & Stéphane Carrié & Nicolas Jean, and 22 others; starring Audrey Fleurot {as Morgane}, Mehdi Nebbou {as Det. Karadec}, Bruno Sanches, Bérangère McNeese, Jeremy Lewin, Cypriane Gardin, Marie Denarnaud, Noé Vandevoorde, Cédric Chevalme, Christopher Bayemi, Rufus {Jacques Narcy}, Timothée Guichard, Clotilde Hesme, Myra Tyliann, Michèle Moretti, Patrick Chesnais, Doudou Masta, Nicolas Martinez, Akache Busiah, Mohamed Makhtoumi, Cédric Le Maoût, Annie Poli, Omar Mebrouk, Thomas Scimeca, Xavier Hosten, Anne Azoulay, Pierre Rochefort, Maxime Fontaine, Pauline Parigot, Ludovic Lecaille, Lyly Chartiez, Jonathan Axel Gomis, Isalinde Giovangigli, Célia Pilastre, Dominique Thomas, Gilbert Bouchard, Frédéric Bazin, Crystal Shepherd-Cross — and 270+ other actors |
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