I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

My belief is that there will be very large numbers of Internet-enabled devices on the Net - home appliances, office equipment, things in the car and maybe things that you carry around. And since they're all on the Internet and Internet-enabled, they'll be manageable through the network, and so we'll see people using the Net and applications on the Net to manage their entertainment systems, manage their, you know, office activities and maybe even much of their social lives using systems on the Net that are helping them perform that function.

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.