It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.

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

My belief is that there will be very large numbers of Internet-enabled devices on the Net - home appliances, office equipment, things in the car and maybe things that you carry around. And since they're all on the Internet and Internet-enabled, they'll be manageable through the network, and so we'll see people using the Net and applications on the Net to manage their entertainment systems, manage their, you know, office activities and maybe even much of their social lives using systems on the Net that are helping them perform that function.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.