Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

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

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.

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.

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

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.