To me that was bang on. We can't predict where our economy and our citizens are going to innovate. Take companies that go down a certain strategic path: often their success comes not from that original path but from something else that comes up along the way. That's the value in having as much data available as possible in as usable a format as possible. When the opportunity arises for folks, they can take advantage of it. You don't know when and you don't know where, so you just have to take that step and make it open.
On December 9th, 2010. See this statement in context.