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I'm disappointed in people in general.

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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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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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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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The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.
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We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over 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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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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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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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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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
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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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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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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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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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I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
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