“But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.”

“We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.”

“The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.”

“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.”

“Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.”

“There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.”

“If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.”

“When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.”

“I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.”