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

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.

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.

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

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.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.

As from the 1970's onward, digital code started to drive the global economy, now life code is beginning to be the fundamental driver of the global economy over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

Do not lose your heart to a faery prince. It never ends well.

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.