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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

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I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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The Internet reflects the societies in which we live, and so the content on the Net and some of the abuses that you see on the Net are reflections of that.
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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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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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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
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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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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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I'm disappointed in people in general.
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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
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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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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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