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

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.

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.

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.

Opportunities will never notify you before knocking, but you need to be ready to open the doors.

Life is short. Jingle your bells.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.