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

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.

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.

‎"We shouldn't wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available--all the time!

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I'm open to different parts. I would love to do something where I can sing and act at the same time.

I still have that new senator smell.

When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.

When I'm feeling confused by my awakening process, that usually means I'm on the right track.

I've been barefoot most of my life: either flip flops or barefoot on the pool deck. Although you'd think that would make me a good candidate for barefoot running, that doesn't work with me.