I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.

We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic.

You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was all any telecom engineer worried about.

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries.

Chaos within destiny. It was the definition of our love.

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

I get so into the moment.

The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience

It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake.

Every little boy should be so lucky as to turn into me.