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We live in a very complex world.

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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's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
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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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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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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
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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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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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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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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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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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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'm disappointed in people in general.
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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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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 last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.
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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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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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