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Jon Postel

"One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small."

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"One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small."

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Akiroq Brost

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

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Akiroq Brost

"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

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Akiroq Brost

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

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Akiroq Brost

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

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Akiroq Brost

"Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess."

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Akiroq Brost

"We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this."

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Akiroq Brost

"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize."

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Akiroq Brost

"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games."

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Akiroq Brost

"Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something."

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Jon Postel
"There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational."

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Jon Postel
"I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station."

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

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Jon Postel
"If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same."

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Jon Postel
"One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems."

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Jon Postel
"TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file."

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Jon Postel
"I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net."

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Jon Postel
"Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing."

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Jon Postel
"Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be."

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Jon Postel
"One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small."

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