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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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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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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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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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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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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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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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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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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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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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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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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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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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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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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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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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