Chance Quote by Katharine Gun

Intelligence services all over the world, in order to retain their competitive edge, have to adapt or they won't survive.

— Gina Haspel

It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it…

— John le Carre

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

— E B White

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…

— Anonymous

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

— Helen Gurley Brown

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or…

— Ernest Hemingway

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the…

— Charles Bass

I worked for GCHQ, which stands for Government Communications Headquarters, and is the equivalent of the NSA here in the U.S.

— Katharine Gun

“We don’t use the word ‘intelligence’ with software. We regard that as a naive idea. We say that it’s ‘complex.’ Which means that we…

— Orson Scott Card

Anyone's views on what they want the intelligence to be will never impact the intelligence that I deliver. I won't shade intelligence for anyone.

— John Ratcliffe

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

— Tony Gilroy

This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.

— Ray McGovern