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I'm disappointed in people in general.

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So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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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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Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
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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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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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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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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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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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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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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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Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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