Quotes about Intelligence

“Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.”

“If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.”

“The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.”

“You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.”

“The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.”

“If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.”

“The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.”

“Teach your kids emotional intelligence. Help them become more evolved than you are. Explain that, for instance, not everyone will like them.”

“The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.”

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”

“I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And 'God' is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It's the great mystery.”

“To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.”

“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.”

“Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.”

“You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.”

“I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.”

“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”

“Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.”

“You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.”

“I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.”

“Understanding vision and building visual systems is really understanding intelligence.”