Robert E. Kahn quotes:

The Internet is a microcosm of society.

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

I believe in the not-too-distant future, people are going to learn to trust their information to the Net more than they now do, and be able to essentially manage very large amounts and perhaps their whole lifetime of information in the Net with the notion that they can access it securely and privately for as long as they want, and that it will persist over all the evolution and technical changes.

I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we're now seeing, whether it's filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot.

I think we're just going to have to live with the microcosm in the electronic world of the kind of things that we might see in the physical world.

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.