"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency." ― Raymond Chandler Topic(s): Intelligence More From Raymond Chandler "Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency." "She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." "Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck." More In Intelligence "It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."― F. Scott Fitzgerald "Intelligence is not a science."― Frank Carlucci "I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair."― Bob Graham