Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

James Stavridis

American Military Officer, United States Navy Four-Star Admiral, 15th Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO's 16th Supreme Allied Commander Europe

"Current events on the world stage reinforce the ongoing need to maintain physical and cyber defensive postures at maximum readiness. Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide. I'm excited to join the Thinklogical team and fellow D&I Advisory Board members to help the market understand the power of Thinklogical's secure and accredited solutions."

"Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks."

"No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together."

"The enormous irony of the military profession is that we are huge risk takers in what we do operationally ? flying airplanes on and off a carrier, driving a ship through a sea state five typhoon, walking point with your platoon in southern Afghanistan ? but publishing an article, posting a blog, or speaking to the media can scare us badly. We are happy to take personal risk or operational risk, but too many of us won?t take career risk."

"Walls don't work. ? Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges."

"The six largest nations in the world in descending order: China, India, Facebook, the United States, Twitter, and Indonesia."