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We live in a very complex world.

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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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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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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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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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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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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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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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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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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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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'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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By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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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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I'm disappointed in people in general.
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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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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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