25 Quotes by John Poindexter

I didn't particularly want to come back into government and run it. However, in the end, it seemed like the only way we could get it off the ground.

The 9/11 Commission is identifying the exact problems that we were trying to get technology to solve. So I keep pushing the idea.

The privacy work was part of what was canceled. But I think it should continue. And I think that eventually it will be continued. I'm an optimist.

Now, I don't think I would say that officially. But certainly I felt a great frustration that we had not been able to avoid 9/11.

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.

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.

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

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.

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.