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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.

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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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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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Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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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 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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I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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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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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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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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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
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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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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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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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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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Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.
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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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