"Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time." - Louis FreehTweet
"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies." - Aldrich AmesTweet
"Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence." - Bryant H. McGillTweet
"My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence." - Daniel GolemanTweet
"George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go." - Richard PerleTweet
"Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national." - Stephen CamboneTweet
"True intelligence requires fabulous imagination." - Ian McewanTweet
"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence." - John CalvinTweet
"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity." - Samuel BeckettTweet
"I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals." - Steve JobsTweet