By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

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.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.

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