I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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.
We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
I'm disappointed in people in general.