#r

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. ↗

— Jon Postel

#audio #calls #i #i think #internet

I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. ↗

— Jon Postel

#closest #closest thing #god #i #i think

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#damn #i #known #never #who

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

— Peter De Vries

#diction #fashioned #like #out #over

Hoping to get a head start on the next day, I eat breakfast the night before. That way I can sleep in until two in the afternoon. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #laziness #lazy #life #sleep

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

— Jon Postel

#got #graduate #graduate student #i #involved

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

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#exact #face #get #look #moth

TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file. ↗

— Jon Postel

#because #data #delivered #does #errors