"Current brain simulations resemble the "planes" and "radios" that Melanesian cargo-cult tribes built out of palm fronds, coral and coconut shells after being occupied by Japanese and American troops during World War II. "Brains" that can't think are like "planes" that can't fly."

" As a Jewish child I was regularly instructed, both subtly and openly, that Jews, the people of Maimonides, Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk and Meyer Lansky, were on the whole smarter, cleverer, more brilliant, more astute than other people. "

"Rushton and Jensen are anything but a new wave of scholars come to shed light on a heretofore intractable problem, as Saletan presents them. On the contrary, they have spent nearly a century combined harping on the same theme... black racial inferiority"

"[Saletan] has just demonstrated that he is either unable or unwilling to do his job. His readers might attempt to extract information from his words by undoing the distortions imposed by his folly and manipulations, but life is too short."

on Saletan's race-and-IQ sources in his Slate article: "Demonstrations that, even if you accept IQ is valid, his sources are quacks who couldn't think their way out of a wet paper bag."

"“I’ve spent the last 10 years of my life researching how much genetic variability there is between populations,” said Dr. Altshuler... it is so clear that the economic and social and educational differences have so much more influence than genes.""

"a lot of superintelligence-oriented folks seem to flip back and forth almost seamlessly between their own, private definitions of intelligence (e.g., that exemplified by people they think of as “smart”) and statistical constructs like g."

"For the most part, however, real genius slipped through Terman's net. None of his prodigies won major scientific prizes or became important artists, while two students excluded from the study for having insufficient test scores...went on to earn Nobels."

"No, the reason I don't want to let Watson go quietly is that he didn't really clean up his original comments. ... His revisions... Scientifically, they say nothing and retract nothing. All they do is make racism harder to identify, scrutinize, and test."

"factor analysis can give the appearance of a general factor when there are actually many thousands of completely independent and equally strong causes at work. Heritability doesn't distinguish these alternatives either."

"In 2000 Watson shocked an audience at the University of California, Berkeley, when he advanced his theory about a link between skin colour and sex drive. ... "That's why you have Latin lovers," he said, according to people who attended the lecture."

"[Watson] said he hoped that everyone was equal, but countered that “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true”."