We Live In A Very Complex World.

I Am An Optimist By Nature And Believe Strongly That Technology Can Be Brought To Bear To Create Alternatives, Even In Crisis Situations.

At Google, We See And Feel The Dangers Of The Government-led Net Crackdown.

If You Are Deaf, You Need Captions For Spoken Elements. If You Are Blind, You Need Voiced Descriptions Of Web Contents And Spoken Renderings Of E-mail. The Range Of Physical Disabilities Is Very Large, And We Need Many Different Tools To Overcome The Consequential Barriers To Internet Use. Let Us Commit Ourselves To Truly Assuring That The Internet Really Is For Everyone.

Information Flow Is What The Internet Is About. Information Sharing Is Power. If You Don't Share Your Ideas, Smart People Can't Do Anything About Them, And You'll Remain Anonymous And Powerless.

I Was Very Nervous About Going Up To Teach At Stanford And Very Nervous Even About Going To Arpa.