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We live in a very complex world.

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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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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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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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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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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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Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.
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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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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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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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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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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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I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
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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 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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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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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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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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