Quotes About Strategy

Truly, Macro thought, the most effective weapons in Rome's arsenal were the picks and shovels wielded by her soldiers.

In fact, Britain had captured thousands of Enigma machines, and distributed them among its former colonies, who believed that the cipher was as secure as it had seemed to the Germans. The British did nothing to disabuse them of this belief, and routinely deciphered their secret communications in the years that followed. Meanwhile

He took the messages to a local brewer, who wrapped them in a leather packet, which was then hidden inside a hollow bung used to seal a barrel of beer. The brewer would deliver the barrel to Chartley Hall, whereupon one of Mary's servants would open the bung and take the contents to the Queen of Scots. The process worked equally well for getting messages out of Chartley Hall.

It is quite possible that British Intelligence demanded that Babbage keep his work secret, thus providing them with a nine-year head start over the rest of the world.

Major General Howard Conner, "without the Navajos, the marines would never have taken Iwo Jima.

the Germans therefore took the clever step of using the day key settings to transmit a new message key for each message.

the Third World War would be the mathematicians' war, because mathematicians will have control over the next great weapon of war—information. Mathematicians have been responsible for developing the codes that are currently used to protect military information.

Histaiaeus shaved the head of his messenger, wrote the message on his scalp, and then waited for the hair to regrow. This was clearly a period of history that tolerated a certain lack of urgency.

When a country has political parties, sooner or later it becomes impossible to intervene effectively in public affairs without joining a party and playing the game.

We can pass the eight Dreadnoughts, if we are sure of the eight Shackleton's.

People who want to make a million borrow a million first

Honestly, it's so easy to get what you want from people if they think you're a psycho.

Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, Here! Have them all!

A relationship is a game of chess.

In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.

A waiter offers me a glass of champagne and I take two. One for now, one to put under my chair for the boring bits.

ODYSSEUS             I cannot recommend a rigid spirit.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.

Clear direction leads to clear results