I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you’ve believed in all your life aren’t true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.
A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything – all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it.
Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.
Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.
Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.
I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.
That’s the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.
Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding. Why? What in God’s name did they want of me?
I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70. And this time we both know it.
By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling… But a world without feeling is a world without pain.
I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon – very soon – it will burst into consciousness.
How many great men didn’t know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?
This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. And now that I’ve found it, how can I give it up? Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.
Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.
Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE.
The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.
The more she talked that way, the worse I felt. She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blundering adolescent in her eyes, and she was trying to let me down easy.
Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.”–Charlie Gordan
Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is … but for God’s sake, have some respect! He’s a human being!
It’s a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don’t remember it.
I was afraid it would come to this, but I have no patience with her now. I’m jealous of every moment away from the work – impatient with any one who tries to steal my time.
Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night – in the moments before I pass off into sleep – ideas explode into my head like fireworks.
What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute – and still eagerly sanding benches.
I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had.
I thought: ‘My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.’ And then I wondered: ‘What would happen if it were possible to increase a person’s intelligence?’