Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
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Because when these DDOS attacks swamp access lines, then filtering at the other end doesn't help.
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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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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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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.
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In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
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In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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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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Of course, I've done small company things, too, but most of them have been nonprofit organizations, such as the Internet Society, and I'm on the board of a number of small companies.
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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
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There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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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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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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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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Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.
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