We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that since 1998 there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature both animals and plants the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself you don't have to think about it.

If an animal does something we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason we call it intelligence.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret since I've never seen any intelligent military person nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence their character their knowledge reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence but an optimist because of will.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.