Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

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.

There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.

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

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