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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

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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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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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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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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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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
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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 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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Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
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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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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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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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Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.
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I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
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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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