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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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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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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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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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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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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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I'm disappointed in people in general.
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In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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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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At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
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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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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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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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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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