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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#diction #fashioned #like #out #over

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. ↗

— Jon Postel

#charge #domain #everybody #fair #just

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. ↗

— Jon Postel

#address #ago #anyone #bits #computers

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. ↗

— Jon Postel

#article #clearly #computer #explaining #interesting

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted. ↗

— Jon Postel

#i #predicted #quite #really #something

Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be. ↗

— Jon Postel

#building #care #companies #go #group

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? ↗

— Mark Poster

#begins #late #more #more and more #politics

One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems. ↗

— Jon Postel

#get #high #home #over #speed

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#ball #get #i #i can #long

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life. ↗

— Franka Potente

#been #being #conscious #consciously #going