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

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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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There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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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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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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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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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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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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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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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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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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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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