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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Most people throw away their personal power... If you want to know where, look at who and what you hate, blame, resent, and envy.

You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.

The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.

I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.

Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time.

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

Seriously, he is just a voice on the radio, unlike the ones in your head, you don't have to do what he tells you to do.

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

Fur only looks good on its original owner. Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.