I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.

The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.

Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.

Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.

I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet.

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

One of my favorite things being on movies is that when you're working, it's the best thing that's ever happened, and then in the downtime, you socialize and go to dinner.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.

I will never forget the debt we owe to those who have fought to keep America safe.