Intelligence - Quotes & Sayings
The U.S. intelligence community is in a very poor position to be trusted with protecting civil liberties while engaging in intelligence work.
Chelsea ManningWhen you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a skilled intelligence professional, everything looks like a vital source for collection.
Chelsea ManningEducation, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.
Jim BrownI am concerned that the vague guidelines and policies used by the NSA for intelligence collection and sharing, in conjunction with elusive direction from the Administration, have led to intelligence being collected on sitting members of Congress for political purposes.
Ron DeSantisA great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
Barbara WaltersIntelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emile M. CioranI'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
Michael CaineYour personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.
John KeyDog-fooding is using your own products so that you understand from inside out what it is you're providing the customers. It's another way to gain insights and to gain intelligence. You use it yourself; you eat your own dog food. Every time we do that, we discover something that we can improve.
Joe GebbiaThere's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.
Alec BaldwinIan Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
Christopher LeeWe've truly transformed Accenture capabilities to help our clients embrace the new, applying innovation and intelligence at the heart of their organizations.
Pierre NantermeBlack girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged as a sign of intelligence and critical thinking in white boys.
Kimberle Williams CrenshawI think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.
Monica LewinskyMr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.
Marsha BlackburnAs a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
Sebastian ThrunYou could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.
Sebastian ThrunWe will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.
Fei-Fei LiUnderstanding vision and building visual systems is really understanding intelligence.
Fei-Fei LiAI-assisted driving is a perfect platform for advancing fundamental human-centric artificial intelligence research while also producing practical applications.
Fei-Fei LiThe only path to build intelligent machines is to enable it with powerful visual intelligence, just like what animals did in evolution.
Fei-Fei LiI don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
Seamus HeaneyI listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
Mikhail BakuninThere is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
James LovelockAdvertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen LeacockWhen student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
Randi WeingartenElia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
Ethel WatersI don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
Harold PinterI never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Harold PinterStrange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.
Annie BesantMen are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.
Annie BesantI think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.
Mike MillsWe believe behavioral science, cognitive computing, and machine intelligence are essential to a successful, holistic surveillance offering and critical to efficient and effective organizational compliance with an increasingly intricate global regulatory environment.
Adena FriedmanSchools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
Jacques BarzunIntelligence is enormously sexy.
Frank LangellaAmericans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion.
Virginia PostrelSuperior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.
William GodwinWhen I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.
Robert M. GatesIntelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.
MenanderSkill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn vos SavantMy ideal woman would be someone with both beauty and intelligence. Someone who can hold her own in a conversation, gets along with my family and respects elders, loves children, and have a sense of humour as whacky as mine.
Karan PatelSynths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.
Thomas BangalterI signed up for military service in the months following 9/11, and later, as a military intelligence officer, I felt called, like so many others, to volunteer for deployment and service in Afghanistan.
Jason KanderI mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.
Vicente FoxIf you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.
Tucker MaxGuantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.
Jim RyunOur actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
E. Stanley JonesOur intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
E. Stanley JonesMy father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.
Mark HelprinIn most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?
Susan Cain