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.

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.

There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.

Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through, Though I am damned for it we two will lieAnd burn, here where the starlings fly

I don't feel I have to share everything.

It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.

When you're around people, act like you like them.

How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.

I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)