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

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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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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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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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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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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'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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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
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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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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'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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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
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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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There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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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'm disappointed in people in general.
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We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.
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We live in a very complex world.
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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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