#intel

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#allies #analysis #capabilities #collection #defense

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#intelligence #kindness #intelligence

Ever since Roberta Wohlstetter’s pathbreaking study of why the United States was taken by surprise at Pearl Harbor 50 years ago, both academics and members of the Intelligence Community (IC) have made significant progress in understanding intelligence failures. About how to correct these errors and do better we know much less, however, and it is to this subject that this volume makes a major contribution. --Foreword to Cases in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Analytic Techniques in Action ↗

— Robert Jervis

#intelligence-analysis #intelligence-books #intelligence

Though my stomach is only the size of a pea, I could eat two politicians’ brains.
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— Jarod Kintz

#eat #eating #food #funny #humor

No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid. b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments. ↗

— Carlo M. Cipolla

#intelligence

العبقري يخترق حجاب المألوف .. ويخرج من أسْر العادة .! ↗

— مصطفى محمود

#intelligence #thinking-with-a-great-mind #intelligence

So I'm writing more highly personalized and intellectual music, and I think that's good. It might take longer to find me, but I think that niche is perhaps underserved, so I'm going to serve that. ↗

— Paula Cole

#going #good #highly #i #i think

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#anymore #believe #convinced #either #failed

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#construction #defend #different #does #go

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. ↗

— Paul R. Ehrlich

#intelligent #parts #rule #save #tinkering