top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
More
"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."
Error
"Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word."
Corporate
"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
"The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted."
World
"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."
People
"I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net."
First
"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."
Computer
"But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that."
Home
"Being in the limelight has its minuses."
Being
"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
More
"If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation."
Author Name
Personal Development
"As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page