“In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.” WorldWantFirstsEndsBigsChoicesAbilityPayStepsMiddleInternetLimitsConcernPaidCustomersAccessUsersTollsProviders Author:Vinton Cerf
“The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. Everything I've done ends up working in my favor. Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.” PeopleKindEndsDoneUseProblemFunMistakeTelevisionStrangeInternetFavorsMaking MistakesExploitsMy MistakesI Make Mistakes Author:David Hasselhoff
“When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out of vanity, or you tend to be indiscriminate about it. I mean, in the old days, it was tricky, you had to go to various encyclopedias, you had to go to the library, maybe spend a day there, whatever. But in the end, if you found something, it was really exciting. Now you hit a couple of buttons and you get some information. Which, by the way, is almost always presented in that same goddamn mediocre style that characterizes the Internet for me. It is slightly deadening.” IfsKnowsWayMeanEndsUseFoundToo MuchStyleInformationCoupleInternetExcitingLibraryVariousVanityAcquireButtonsMediocreTrickyOld DaysDisagreeableEncyclopediaToo Much Information Author:Norman Mailer
“I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very complimentary, because the author suggested that I wasn't doing a very good job, and that I ought to be replaced by a "professional." Of course, there isn't any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.” PeopleThinkingEndsTogetherJobsCoursesOughtInternetVery GoodArticlesClosestReplacedGood Job Author:Jon Postel
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.” PeopleInspirationalHumansChildrenHas BeensEndsGamesGrowsRaceGrowing UpReaderInternetHuman RaceFree SpeechNuisanceTill The End Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton