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The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway.

In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.

The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.