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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.

Vinton Cerf

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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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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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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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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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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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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.
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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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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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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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On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
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