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"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
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"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
"I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!"
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
"I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify."
"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter."
"The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means."
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
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"Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal."
"I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor."
"TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue."
"Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people."
"You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives."
"The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored."
"I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both."
"I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to."
"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
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