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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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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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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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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
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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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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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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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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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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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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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It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.
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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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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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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'm disappointed in people in general.
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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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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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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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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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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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