Clever Quotes

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

John Carmack
- Nature
- Law
- Clever
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Rudyard Kipling
- Woman
- Needs
- Manage

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

Charles Davenport
- Clever
Prince Charles has doomed himself by so clearly wanting to be thought clever and cultured: the clever, cultured people don't buy it, and the people don't want a clever, cultured ruler.

James Hawes
- People
- Clever
- Prince
In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what?

David Fahrenthold
- Good
- Past
- Law
The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .

Napoleon Hill
- Up
- Great
- Power
'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'

Jack Vance
- Clever
What I've found over the years working on various projects is, you can have a clever book or clever tagline, but there has to be a story to go along with it that leads to something bigger. Something with a little more texture to it.

Mark Waid
- Book
- Clever