"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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"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 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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"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."

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

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