It’s really amazing how much advice for today’s technologists can be found in history.
Some of our favorites:
Claude Shannon: Assume the enemy knows the system
Sun Tzu: Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting
Sun Tzu: Opportunities multiply as they are seized
Sun Tzu: To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.
Napoleon: War Is Ninety Percent Information: So All War Is Cyber War
Hannibal: I will either find a way or make one
Wellington: The business of war, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do