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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

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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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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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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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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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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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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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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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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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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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My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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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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