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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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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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I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.
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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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Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
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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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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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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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There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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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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I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.
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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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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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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 Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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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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