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

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.

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.

Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.

Mistakes are part of your life

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

God's glory is His goodness.

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

The kids who come backstage that have cancer or whatever, make them laugh and smile for a little while, what's the problem with that? There isn't any.

Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s.

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.