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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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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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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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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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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.
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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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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 computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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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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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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