The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.
It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.
And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.
I 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.
Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.
I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.
For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.
One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.
