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We live in a very complex world.
Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
I'm disappointed in people in general.
The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.
I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.
I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.
I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
The Internet reflects the societies in which we live, and so the content on the Net and some of the abuses that you see on the Net are reflections of that.
My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
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.
We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.
So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
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.
They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.
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.
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.
There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
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.
The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.