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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

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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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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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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.
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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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I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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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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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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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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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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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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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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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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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
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