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

Vinton Cerf

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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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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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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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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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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 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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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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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
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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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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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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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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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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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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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