The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

It is rather difficult to envisage a scenario that could change the domestic situation in the countries of the South Caucasus without solving the problems constantly hindering normal cooperation in the region.

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.

I would not draw definitive conclusions from that. If we look at South and North Korea, it is pretty hard to believe that we're dealing with the same people. Half of the people are forced to live in a concentration camp; the other have created one of the most dynamic economies in the world.

If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.

I don't have enough information, and enough courage, to come up with a definite version of events. And I think it is too dangerous for me to do so.

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.