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.

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

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.

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.

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

You can't force anyone to love you or to lend you money.

every failure is also a victory.

Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

Actually what's worse than a dog's mouth is a cat's mouth. They're not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so they are much more likely to go deep, should they bite you.

He that gives quickly gives twice.

It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

I'm not perfect but I'm learning to be better.