Occupation: Engineer Birth: June 23, 1943
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..
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….
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily..
Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds..
The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be..
The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that wer….
But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves..
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 fas….
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 reflectio….
I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out ho….
If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society..
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet..
By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation..
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 t….
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 the….
The computer would do anything you programmed it to do..
I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely..
Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis..
We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure..
At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown..
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 pac….