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

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.

We live in a very complex world.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

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

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.