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.

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.

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.

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.

Those who fight for social justice and the rights of people will count any other thing as unimportant.

We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!

This time as we ascend, I watch the world sinking below us. I watch the way the city fades into sand that gets washed by the ocean.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

I am always trying to write.

If you want to play a cool punk club, that's great - but punk clubs don't have any toilet seats. After a while, little things like that become big issues.

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions.