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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.

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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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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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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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We live in a very complex world.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
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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 was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
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What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.
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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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