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My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
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What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
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The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.
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What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.
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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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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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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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If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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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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I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
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At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
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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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It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.
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Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
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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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First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
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