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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.

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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 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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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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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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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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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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I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
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If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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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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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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Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.
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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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On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
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In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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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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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
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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 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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