We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

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.

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.

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

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

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.