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.

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.