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

It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.

I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.

I'm disappointed in people in general.

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.