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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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"The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."
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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."
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"In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails."
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"Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires."
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"It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date."
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"Ideas are the source of all things."
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"I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed."
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"All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it."
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"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."
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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."
Diplomacy
"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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"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
Information
"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
"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
"TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue."
Being
"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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"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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"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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