List of Jon Postel Quotes

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.

I Got Involved When I Was A Graduate Student At Ucla When Ucla Was The First Site On The Net.

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.

One Way To Get High Speed To The Home Is Over Cable Systems.

But I Do Have A Computer At Home And A Pretty Good Isdn Connection.

Everyone Should Have Ten Megabits And Then The Web Will Be A Wonderful Thing.

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.

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.

The Overriding Rule, If You Want To Run A Domain, Is To Be Fair.

Be Conservative In Its Sending Behavior, And Liberal In Its Receiving Behavior.

Corporate Documents, Like Football Game Plans, Are Not Easily Drafted In A Stadium, With Thousands Of Very Interested Fans Participating, Each With Their Own Red Pencil, Trying To Reach A Consensus On Every Word.

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.