Quotes About Intelligence

Widely hailed as the most popular director of Central Intelligence since Allen Dulles, Bush had enormous support within the Agency. As the campaign got under way, Reagan-Bush posters appeared all over CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, many cut in the middle with only the right side, the Bush side, on display.

In the New York Times, Seymour Hersh later reported that "Israel and American Intelligence officials acknowledged that weapons, ammunition, and spare parts worth several billion dollars flowed into Iran each year during the early 1980's

On the other hand, in a famous "genius test" conducted at Stanford by Lewis Terman and colleagues from the 1920s into the 1990s, a cohort of 1,500 youngsters with IQs over 135 ultimately failed to produce a single genius.48

Winston Churchill was likewise a poor student, admitting that "Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

A fellow with the smallest mind is the one who is usually most willing to give someone a piece of it.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

Brilliant students make good aides.

The English," said MacWilliam, a trace of Highland accent appearing for once in his speech, "are not by and large an educated people.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

I just thought making machines intelligent was the coolest thing you could do. I had a summer internship in AI in high school, writing neural networks at National University of Singapore - early versions of deep learning algorithms. I thought it was amazing you could write software that would learn by itself and make predictions.

We get so enamored by speed, size, vertical jumps, and all these other measurables and tangibles. But what makes a great football player isn't size or speed. Great football players know how to play the game, and they push harder than guys twice their size.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don't exclude myself from that. It's about being smarter than a hacker. Not about being smart.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.

If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants.

I was an Army intelligence agent and a veteran during the Cold War, assigned to West Germany. I was the chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security and Terrorism for the United States for five years. I was a person who has dealt extensively with these homeland security issues. I was a governor during the 9/11 attack.