Quotes About Strategy

Ender estaba tendido en su cama con los ojos fijos en el techo. Desde que era comandante no dormía más de cinco horas diarias.

It was Ender whose previous victories taught the enemy to think of us as one kind of creature, when we are really something quite different. He pretended all this time that humans were rational beings, when we are really the most terrible monsters these poor aliens could ever have conceived of in their nightmares.

There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you.

Most armies practiced mass maneuvers, preformed strategies. Ender had none. Instead he trained his toon leaders to use their small units effectively in achieving limited goals. Unsupported, alone, on their own initiative.

Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

First thing we need to do," said Bean, "is split up." "No," said Petra. "I've done this before, Petra. Going into hiding. Keeping from getting caught." "And if we're together we're too identifiable, la la la," she said. "Saying 'la la la' doesn't mean it isn't true.

No hay más maestro que el enemigo. Nadie sino el enemigo te dirá lo que va a hacer el enemigo. Nadie sino el enemigo te enseñará a destruir y conquistar. Sólo el enemigo te enseña tus puntos débiles. Sólo el enemigo te enseña sus puntos fuertes. Y las únicas reglas del juego son qué puedes hacerle y qué puedes impedir que él te haga.

he was patient with their tendency to ignore him, and learned to make his proposals and suggest his plans through the few adults who listened to him, and let them present them as their own. He was concerned, not about getting credit, but about getting the job done.

You cannot absorb losses!" Mazer shouted at him after one battle. "When you get into a real battle you won't have the luxury of an infinite supply of computer-generated fighters. You'll have what you brought with you and nothing more. Now get used to fighting without unnecessary waste.

launches usually moved into the armies together

The enemy may outgun us, but they will never outthink us.

Violence was what the military existed for. Controlled violence directed against appropriate targets.

There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.

I didn't fight with honor,' Ender added. 'I fought to win.

Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, where a woman can count on stability; our legal and moral codes that try to abolish violence and promote permanence of ownership and enforce contracts—those represent the primary female strategy, the taming of the male.

Orson Scott Card

This wasn't about killing Bean—that was just a bonus. It was about getting Bean's babies.

He had long since learned that when somehting unusual was going on, something that was part of someone else's plan and not his own, he would find out more information by waiting than by asking. Adults almost always lost their patience before Ender did.

It is very important to concentrate on hitting the U.S. economy through all means possible

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity: General George S. Patton.

Know your enemy, know yourself.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.