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"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly."
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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."

"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."

"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."

"Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard."

"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."

"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."

"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."

"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."

"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."
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"Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases."


"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split."


"IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device."


"Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable."


"Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free."


"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."


"I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues."


"Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them."
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