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.

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

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

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

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

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

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.