Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

Internet becoming accessible everywhere, whether it was Wi-Fi at work, on your cell phone as you traveled. People had it at home with broadband. There was a big change.It used to be people used the Internet primarily at work, because that's where they had a good connection. Now they're using it at home. And the second big change is, they used it not just to get information, but to communicate with one another. And, so, it became not simply an information exchange, but a personal exchange, a communication mechanism.

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.