I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

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

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

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.

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

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