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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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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.
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We live in a very complex world.
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Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
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I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.
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We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.
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Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
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They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.
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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.
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I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.
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On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
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I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.
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Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.
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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.
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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.
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