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.

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.

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I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts.

The stadium here in Munich is the best of the lot for me. It is absolutely fantastic, especially the way it lights up a different colour according to who is playing. It's superb

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

We started thinking if we can have more people involved instead of less people involved, wouldn't that be a good thing?

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.