If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it. – Proverb
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasnt attacked us, its because he cant or because weve defeated him. – Michael Scheuer
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
