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.

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.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

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.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

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.

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 confined to a single network technology.

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

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

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

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

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

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

Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

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 it seemed at the time.