The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'