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.

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.

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.

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

The problem with the world is there's too many stupid people and nobody to eat them.

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.