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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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"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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Asa Don Brown

"The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors."

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Asa Don Brown

"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."

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Asa Don Brown

"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."

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Asa Don Brown

"Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way."

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Asa Don Brown

"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."

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Asa Don Brown

"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter."

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Asa Don Brown

"There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance."

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Asa Don Brown

"The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss."

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Asa Don Brown

"I did it the stupid way, through trial and error."

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Asa Don Brown

"I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway."

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"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."
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"The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair."
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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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"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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"I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet."
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"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."
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"Being in the limelight has its minuses."
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"The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted."
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"But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection."
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"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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