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

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.

I'm disappointed in people in general.

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

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.