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In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

Just as our adversaries and threats continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI. The key to this evolution lies with our greatest assets: our people and our partnerships. Every FBI professional understands that thwarting the threats facing our nation means constantly striving to be more effective and more efficient.

Each FBI employee understands that to defeat the key threats facing our nation, we must constantly strive to be more efficient and more effective. Just as our adversaries continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI.

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know.