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.

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

We ought to walk in the bright light.

it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger

There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.

He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.

Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.

If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.

It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.

... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.

I think there's going to be an obligation to show that Trumpism is not a complete equivalent for GOP.

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.