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

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.

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.

Make your life a work of art and you will never die.

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain.