Intelligence And Intellectuals Quotations | Page 3

He's not showy. He's quietly effective. He has marshaled his intelligence in the service of getting things done.

How is it possible that we're getting better intelligence than you're getting? We had a National Guardsman who was talking to us, who was telling us he estimated the crowd at 50,000 people. I don't understand how FEMA cannot have this information.

However, we don't conduct random sweeps. All our arrests are the result of investigations, evidence and intelligence.

He's improved so much since his freshman year. He's hit a lot of balls, and he's also used his intelligence to improve. He's said, 'This is what I need to improve on, this is what I need to work on.' And I think he still has his best golf ahead of him. It may even be a few years down the road.

He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate.

The main value of threat response services is the global intelligence network that feeds it. A robust global network with sophisticated data analysis differentiates one service from the next. It is a key determining factor when choosing a security provider.

The trouble is, almost all filters today work using simple keyword-matching approaches, when what's needed is something with more natural language interpretation intelligence. Otherwise, any reasonable attempt at defining filters ends up either letting much too much in that you don't want in, or stopping bona fide messages.

This is a large and extremely well-coordinated attack. In spite of our best efforts to coordinate intelligence collection on terrorists, this is a massive failure of national cooperation, ... I can't believe there were no indications.

The head of intelligence for the NYPD is the former deputy director of the CIA, ... I would take his word before I would take some spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security's word.

The chief justice is the titular head of the third branch in the U.S. and abroad. You're looking for someone with the intellectual and leadership skills that can be a persuasive force in conference and the wider world.

The committee found significant shortcomings in almost every aspect of the intelligence community's human intelligence collection efforts against Iraq's weapons of mass destruction activities. In particular, that the community had no sources collecting against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after 1998. Most, if not all of these problems stem from the broken corporate culture and poor management, and it will not be solved by additional funding and personnel.

The major security and intelligence services in the West are missing a lot by neglecting the enormous amount of writing on the Internet, first of all because this is in Arabic.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in the epoch-making program.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos.