"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."

"URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's."

"The internet is a great way to get on the net."

"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."

"There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features."

"Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000."

"There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.""

"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."

"Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty."