Quotes About Intelligence

US government has the capability to remotely activate cell phones and convert them into listening devices.

Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has as its goal the complete elimination of electronic privacy worldwide.

The collect-it-all system did nothing to detect, let alone disrupt, the 2012 Boston Marathon bombing. It did not detect the attempted Christmas-day bombing of a jetliner over Detroit, or the plan to blow up Times Square, or the plot to attack the New York City subway system—all of which were stopped by alert bystanders or traditional police powers.

the last story laid out the PRISM program, which I had first learned about at home in Brazil.

for a thirty-day period ending in February 2013, one unit of the NSA collected more than three billion pieces of communication data from US communication systems

Another BOUNDLESS INFORMANT document detailed the international data collected in a single thirty-day period from Germany (500 million), Brazil (2.3 billion), and India (13.5 billion). And yet other files showed collection of metadata in cooperation with the governments of France (70 million), Spain (60 million), Italy (47 million), the Netherlands (1.8 million), Norway (33 million), and Denmark (23 million).

Encryption matters, and it is not just for spies and philanderers.

Beyond collecting comprehensive data about the online activities of hundreds of millions of people, X-KEYSCORE allows any NSA analyst to search the system's databases by email address, telephone number, or identifying attributes such as an IP address.

As the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza put it in a December 2013 article, instead of providing oversight, the Senate committee more often "treats senior intelligence officials like matinée idols.

adviser, repeatedly requested that the NSA spy on the internal discussions of key member states to learn their negotiation strategies. A May 2010 SSO report

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

But, she fancied, she would not be able to be really unintelligent again, not even if she tried; so much having happened to her.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

the discovery that ordinary people are smart, smart people are ordinary

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

The extreme ability to find the complex simple, to simplify the complex and to find complexity in the simple is the hallmark of genius.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

Believe me, dearest, what men call intelligent Often is pedantry and self-conceit.

Tutti i pensieri intelligenti sono già stati pensati, occorre solo tentare di ripensarli.

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

Two departments of the PLA—the General Staff Department's Third and Fourth Departments, respectively—are organized to systematically penetrate communications and computer systems, extract information, and exploit that information.15 It is far faster, cheaper, and more efficient for the PLA to steal new technology than to devote vast amounts of time and money to develop it.

Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.