“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011 film)”
John le Carré (1931) British novelist and spy
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Francis Place (1771–1854) English social reformer
Source: The Autobiography of Francis Place: 1771-1854, 1972, p. 216
Mark W. Clark (1896–1984) American general
Source: Calculated Risk (1950), p. 1
Context: A soldier's life in combat is an endless series of decisions that mean success or failure, and perhaps life or death for himself or his comrades. The rifleman crawling through the rubble of a bombed-out street must decide on the best moment to escape enemy fire as he dodges from one doorway to the next. He must take a chance. The general seeking to break an enemy defense line and destroy his forces must decide just when and how to strike and precisely to what extent he dare weaken one sector of his front in order to mass overpowering strength at the main point of attack. He, too, must take a chance, although, in the stilted phraseology of military communiqués, he calls it a "calculated risk".
Jasper Johns (1930) American artist
Watchman. Somewhere here, there is the question of "seeing clearly". Seeing what? According to what?
Book A (sketchbook), c 1965: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 60
1960s
“Elegance should be left to shoemakers and tailors”
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) Austrian physicist
Eleganz sei die Sache der Schuster und Schneider
reported by [Arnold Berliner, Curt Thesing, Die Naturwissenschaften, Springer-Verlag, 1946, 36]
also reported by [Albert Einstein, translation by Robert W. Lawson, Relativity, Plain Label Books, 1921, 1-603-03164-2, preface]
Attributed
“We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: Alice in Zombieland
“I got nothing. Even the spies I’m spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.”
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Shadow's Claim