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We live in a very complex world.

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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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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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First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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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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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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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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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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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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I'm disappointed in people in general.
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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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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
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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'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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Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
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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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