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DARPA was created in 1958 … Its founding mission was simple: "to prevent and create strategic surprise."

— Regina E. Dugan

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The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way … It’s supposed to be hard.

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Scientists and engineers changed the world.

Its programs last, on average, only three to five years.

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Science is art. It is the process of creating something that never exists before. ... It makes us ask new questions about ourselves, others; about ethics, the future.

Over the past 50 years, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has produced an unparalleled number of breakthroughs. Arguably, it has the longest-standing, most consistent track record of radical invention in history.

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