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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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"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."
"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."
"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."
"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."
"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."
"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."
"Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea."
"The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent."
"Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences."
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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."
"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."
"TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue."
"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 think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor."
"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."
"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
"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."
"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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