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

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.

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

The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.

Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.

Super-successf ul people aren’t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition.

Punch me." "Don't be absurd." "Come on, punch me, Barrons." "I'm not punching you." "I said, punch--OW!" He decked me.

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because... you just keep working.