#intelligence

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#advertising agency #agency #chess #elaborate #human

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#agencies #brought #charged #down #enforcement

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#cause #certain #church #did #disclose

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#does #his #intelligence #involve #man

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#i #just #longer #problems #smart

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#almost #also #comprehension #develop #find

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' ↗

— Brian Eno

#action #agenda #course #devious #discussion

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructive #endure #foundation #god #harmonize

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agree #intellect #mark #pessimism #superior

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#am #book #boost #confused #confusion