“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.”
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I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.
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.
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.