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I'm disappointed in people in general.

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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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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'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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In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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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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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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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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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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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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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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In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
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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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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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