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.

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

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

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.

Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.