John A Brown

My thing is Intelligence Engineering, and Strategy is the other thing.

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• "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Isaac Newton (1676)
• "This letter is longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short." Blaise Pascal Provincial Letters no.16
• "... there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new." Machiavelli (1515) The Prince
• "All warfare is based in deception." Sun Tzu The Art of War
• "... throughout the ages, effective results in war have rarely been attained unless the approach has had such indirectness as to ensure the opponent's unreadyness to meet it. The indirectness has usually been physical, and always psychological." B. H. Liddell Hart (1954) Strategy.
• "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Mark Twain
• "You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye." Walter Pitkin Art of Rapid Reading
• "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Alcoholics Anonymous version of The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr (c. 1940)