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John Poindexter

"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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Akiroq Brost

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

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"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"

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"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."

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"Never ask a bore a question."

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"My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most."

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"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."

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"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"

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"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly."

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"The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere."

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"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"

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

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John Poindexter
"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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John Poindexter
"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."

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

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John Poindexter
"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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"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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John Poindexter
"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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John Poindexter
"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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John Poindexter
"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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