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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 the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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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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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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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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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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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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I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.
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We live in a very complex world.
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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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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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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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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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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.
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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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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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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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