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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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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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The Internet reflects the societies in which we live, and so the content on the Net and some of the abuses that you see on the Net are reflections of that.
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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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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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Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
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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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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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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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There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
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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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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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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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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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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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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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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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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
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