Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard of hearing community as well.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.

In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

We live in a very complex world.