Steve Crocker quotes
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“Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.”
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“It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.”
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“The Internet has become important on the world's stage.”
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“E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list.”
-- Steve CrockerSource : "Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions for the Internet". Interview with Cade Metz, www.wired.com. May 18, 2012.
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“An elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare combination!”
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“Usenet is 'the last uncensored mass medium.'”
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“The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.”
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“Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.”
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“We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.”
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“Screw guilt -- I could have sex with 10 men and it wouldn't bother me. I'm an atheist!”
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“Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.”
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“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
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Source : "Saddam Hussein's Former Doctor Paints a Different Picture" by Charlotte Sector, abcnews.go.com. April 28, 2006.
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“What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh.”
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Source : "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar". Book by Marshall Brown, 1899.
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