Allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as...

Al Gore actually deserves a lot of credit. In about 1986, he started asking questions like, ‘Why don’t we take these supercomputers and these optical fiber networks and put them together. Would that do anything?’...

In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that’s good.

when we do get to the point where we need all the services in space that we have become accustomed to on Earth.

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.

My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers’ ability to get access to the services of their choice even though they...

Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

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.

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department’s problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn’t want to be...

It took 30 years to get the Internet to where we are now. Thirty years from now, we have to assume there will be colonies on the moon, colonies on Mars and other planets and...

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address – just one – this country would use up one third of the...

Although I’ve had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.