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The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us. -- Karl Popper
As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives. -- John O. Brennan
Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national. -- Stephen Cambone
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy. -- Aldrich Ames
The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence. -- Alex Gibney
The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed. -- Alfred North Whitehead
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. -- Stephen Hawking
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. -- Arthur C. Clarke
I love smart and curious people. I value intelligence in my friends and relationships. -- Kerry Bishe
The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for. -- Charlie Munger
Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture. -- Howard Gardner
Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence. -- Stuart J. Russell
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most. -- Marlon Brando
An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources. -- Charles Handy
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. -- Bertrand Russell
In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek. -- James Marsters

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