Quotes About Strategy

Scientists have solved the problem of solipsism with a strategy called 'inference to the best explanation'. It's a cheap accommodation, and no one is happy about it, with the possible exception of those alien overlords.

You deal with the bitch, I'll deal with the ditch.

If you can't beat them, divide them.

You never have perfect knowledge in combat, gentlemen. It's what we call the fog of war. You can either sit around worrying what's real and what's not, or you can realize the enemy hasn't got a clue either and fire off a few rounds of psychology. A truly great army is one that only has to rattle its saber to win a war.

Bury me the ONI way. Fill me up with explosives and use me as a booby trap.

In this job, you handpick your people. You need the best. You need the most loyal. You need the most ruthless.

He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.

He had always said there was nothing that a list couldn't solve. Conquer the details and you conquer the problem.

How do you trick a psychopath into telling the truth?" Laura kept silent for so long that Andrea wasn't sure she was still on the line. Eventually, her mother said, "You do the same thing that they do to you—you make them think that you believe in them.

but she'd purposefully turn in a paper late or miss an assignment so she'd fall closer to the middle.

The best captain does not plunge headlong Nor is the best soldier a fellow hot to fight. The greatest victor wins without the battle....

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power and movement. The enemy's center of gravity

It was The Aeneid that had included the fascinating story of the Trojan Horse. Why anyone would accept a gift from a departing, defeated army had made no sense to her then and still did not. But, again, men had made the decision, probably drunk with their victory. Any woman would look at such a gift and wonder why it had been given, and then have someone quickly dispose of it.

not so much an agent provocateur as an agent passif, if such a thing could be said to exist. ("Sometimes," Perry said, "saying nothing can be your strongest weapon.")

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.