Explore Quotes by Jon Postel

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.