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.

People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

We live in a very complex world.

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.

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.