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

The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.

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

The Internet reflects the societies in which we live, and so the content on the Net and some of the abuses that you see on the Net are reflections of that.

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.

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

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.