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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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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
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I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.
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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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I'm disappointed in people in general.
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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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