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.

Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.

So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.

If you keep groaning, please do it to a rythmn I can dance to.

The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within.

By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.

Winning breeds winning.

Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.