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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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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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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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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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On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
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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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I'm disappointed in people in general.
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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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Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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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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Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard of hearing community as well.
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I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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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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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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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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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 town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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