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Sleep is a waste of time.
We live in a very complex world.
Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.
The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
The Internet is literally a network of networks.
The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
The first commercial routers came out about 1986, and services came in 1987.
Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.
In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.
In a town of 3,000 people, there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.
You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.
It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.
At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.
The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.
For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.
It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.
It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.
The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.
Will we shoot virtually at each other over the Internet? Probably not. On the other hand, there may be wars fought about the Internet.
Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.
I used to tell jokes about Internet-enabled lightbulbs. I can't tell jokes about it anymore - there already is an Internet-connected lightbulb.
We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic.
There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.
When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.
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.
I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
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.
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.
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.
One thing that I can tell you that we have not done very well is to build in broadcast capability into the network, and we don't take advantage of broadcast radio.
One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?
The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.