In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

That's a good attitude. You should hate me more, curse me more, and detest me! Then you should take the power of that hatred and use it to survive this rotten world.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

Know the great men of your age.

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.

Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.