"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."

John Poindexter, American Public Servant

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"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."

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"TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue."

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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."

Government

"We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas."

Ideas

"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."

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"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."

Government

"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."

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"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."

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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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"I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor."

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