I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA. |
We live in a very complex world. |
There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration. |
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. |
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. |
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. |
The Internet lives where anyone can access 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. |
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. |
I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices. |