"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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"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."

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"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."

Dawn French, British Comedian

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"It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say."

Lucinda Williams, American Musician

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"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."

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"Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events."

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"In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?"

Andrew McCarthy, American Actor

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"Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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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."

Technology

"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

"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

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

Being

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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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