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

John Poindexter, American Public Servant

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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

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"I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12."

Norman Wisdom, English Comedian

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"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."

Henry Bessemer, English Scientist

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"Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free."

Douglas Horton, American Clergyman

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"There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line."

Bruce Campbell, American Actor

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"Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask."

Bryn Terfel, Welsh Musician

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"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

John Cage, American Composer

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"If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed."

Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Leader

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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."

Present

"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."

Technology

"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."

Diplomacy

"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."

Failure

"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

"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."

Question

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

Being

"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."

Information

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