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

- John Poindexter

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.

- John Poindexter

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.

- John Poindexter

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 qu…

- John Poindexter

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 …

- John Poindexter

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

- John Poindexter

Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range obje…

- John Poindexter

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 th…

- John Poindexter

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

- John Poindexter