top of page
Quote_1.png
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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

More 

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

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

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Jon Postel
"I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net."

First

Quote_1.png
Jon Postel
"The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis."

First

Quote_1.png
Jon Postel
"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."

Class

Quote_1.png
Jon Postel
"The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted."

World

Quote_1.png
Jon Postel
"The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together."

People

Quote_1.png
Jon Postel
"Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing."

Will

Quote_1.png
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."

Name

Quote_1.png
Jon Postel
"That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it."

Computer

Quote_1.png
Jon Postel
"The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair."

Want

Quote_1.png
Jon Postel
"But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection."

Home

bottom of page