Quotes about Intelligence

“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”

“I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.”

“The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.”

“We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.”

“I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.”

“The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.”

“Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.”

“This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.”

“Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.”

“I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.”

“I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.”

“I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.”

“We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.”

“Since the beginning of the computer age, there has been immense development in computer intelligence but exactly zero development in computer consciousness.”

“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”

“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.”

“I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.”

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.”

“My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.”

“When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'”