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We live in a very complex world.

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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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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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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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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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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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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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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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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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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
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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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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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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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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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So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
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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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