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Intelligence

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasnt due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. – Charles F. Bass

Its the continuation of everyones childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant theyre gone from this world. Its terrible. – Lucien Bouchard

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 is involved or not (whatever is involved might mean). – Douglas Hofstadter

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids show. – Nichelle Nichols

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but its more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, its more like social intelligence. – Matt Walsh

It doesnt matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who cant speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community. – Seymour Hersh

Millions of dollars worth of advertising shows such little respect for the readers intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult. – James Randolph Adams

Of course I believe in aliens. I think its very egocentric to think that theres nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe. – Lizzie Brochere

Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, its benign… but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody. – Ted Bell

Im fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man? – Charles Cumming

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmachts preparations. – Leopold Trepper

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence – an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered – In the beginning, God. – Arthur H. Compton

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late 70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agencys impact on American policy. – Aldrich Ames

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they dont understand what the real problems are. – Aldrich Ames

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didnt support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. – Aldrich Ames

Foreign Ministry guys dont become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. – Aldrich Ames

I wasnt privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City. – E. Howard Hunt

You dont need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. – Yiddish Proverb

Its good to be clever, but not to show it. – Proverb

She was short on intellect, but long on shape. – George Ade