Quotes About Intelligence

Computers are really, basically, computing elements and a lot of memory. They are pretty easy to understand, as compared to the brain, which was designed by evolution.

As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.

Biden is actually a wonk at heart. Despite his gaffes, he's very cerebral.

We have gutted our ability to detect the next attack. And I would not stand for that as president of the United States.

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

I'm not a guy who can sit there and look at a diagram of a play and understand it.

You have to be savvy. You have to be tactically aware, because that's what makes the difference in the big matches.

There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected.

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system.

There's a huge impact on national security and intelligence. The new normal is going to be more and more of these hacks, whether it's Target or Home Depot or the Office of Personnel Management or Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos.

From my experience as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, if a congressperson is identified as a potential target by a foreign intelligence service, that individual is notified.

Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.

To say the U.S. government is targeting U.S. persons, to listen to their phone calls and read their emails, is just false.

I briefed the House and Senate Intelligence committees that China is targeting members of Congress with six times the frequency of Russia and 12 times the frequency of Iran.

As I have said in the past, revealing specific targets or successes of U.S. intelligence activities is not in the public interest.

Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.

To the best of my knowledge, after the Pollard affair, Israel does not spy on the United States or against American targets.

State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States.

FISA targets those who are 'agents of a foreign power.'

I looked up the Queen of Swords and I read the meaning. It was a tarot card. The description of the tarot card sounded to me like the description of a certain type of woman: She's strong, she's proud, she's intelligent and all these different things. I was like, that's how I want to be.

There's a childlike quality to Tarzan that's quite beautiful and wonderful, but there's also an intelligence and fierceness that's quite powerful as well.

Managing China is a daunting task, and they've got smart people doing it.