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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

Vinton Cerf

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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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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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I'm disappointed in people in general.
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There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
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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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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 computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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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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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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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
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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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The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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We live in a very complex world.
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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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Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.
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