Quotes About Strategy

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.

I don't know what I'm doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out.

knew enough to use their blindness to our advantage.

The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

Politics is not a science...but an art.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

It doesn't matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.