"The most reliable components are the ones you leave out."

“A Broadband Cable for TV is like a sewer pipe that in principle can carry gas, water, and waste: it is easy to get all that shit in there, but hard to separate it out again.”

“Somebody once said, 'He's never wrong about the future, but he does tend to be wrong about how long it takes.”

“In 10 years, you'll see 99% of the hardware and software systems sold through what are fundamentally retail stores.”

“Microsoft NT...is going to be very far-reaching. It's going to grab the rug out from under Unix.”

“Twenty-five years from now...Computers will be exactly like telephones. They are probably going to be communicating all the time ... I would hope that by the year 2000 there is this big infrastructure, giving us arbitrary bandwidth on a pay-as-you-go basis.”