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"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills."
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"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."
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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network."
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"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible."
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"My whole life had been designing computers I could never build."
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"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."
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"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal."
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"I don't seek power and do not run around."
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"Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way."
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"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."
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"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."
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"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone."
Life

"Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time."
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"When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed."
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"My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact."
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"There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable."
Will

"There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time."
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