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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.
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I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.
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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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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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I'm disappointed in people in general.
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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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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 Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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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 live in a very complex world.
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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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