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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!

The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.

A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

You are never too young to be fierce and brave in your faith!

I dont have the confidence to be a personality.