"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

Failure, Objectives

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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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