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Either war is obsolete, or men are.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.

Man knows so much and does so little.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well...

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy...

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.

Those who do remember it (the past) will find new ways to screw up.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

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.

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.