I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

I expect that the entertainment industry will have gone through its own convulsion in the same way the telecom industry will have gone through its.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

People need to be exposed to what the various problems are in various parts of the business. And you can become isolated from that in a large company.

I’ve always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

You push the button, we do the rest.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

So one of the most important things we can do in the industry is make sure that the threat of cyberattacks is minimized as much as possible.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.

We live in a very complex world.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

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.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

There’s an old maxim that says, ‘Things that work persist,’ which is why there’s still Cobol floating around.

What is special about VOIP is that it’s just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing – or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up...

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

If you need to understand it to make policy, you should turn first to people who are scientists and engineers for factual information.

I’m getting tired of answering the same questions every day.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I’m continually inspired and write reflexively.

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

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...

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.

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

There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

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.

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark… or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

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.

Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

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...

Wedge felt my effort wasn’t good enough for the Cleveland Indians. But the Dodgers are just fine with my effort and I’m perfectly alright with that.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

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...

I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything,...

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