Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about. Whitfield Diffie
The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. John Keegan
She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited. Kate Chopin
My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor. Karl Philipp Moritz
DR.Van Helsing must be a good man as well as a clever one if he is Arthur's friend and DR.Seward's, and if they brought him all the way from Holland to look after Lucy.
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
Iain Banks
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. Amy Tan