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.

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.

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.

Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

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