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List of Jon Postel Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 23 inspiring quotes by Jon Postel.

About Jon Postel

  • Born: August 6, 1943
  • Died: October 16, 1998
  • Occupation: Computer Scientist
    • 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.
    Thinking Phones Games
    I got involved when i was a graduate student at ucla when ucla was the first site on the net.
    Ucla Firsts Students
    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.
    Home People Planning
    One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.
    Home Getting High Way
    But i do have a computer at home and a pretty good isdn connection.
    Home Connections Computer
    Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
    Should Have Wonderful Ten
    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.
    Years People Groups
    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.
    Interesting Magazines Computer
    The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.
    Running Want Domain
    Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.
    Conservative Accepting
    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.
    Football Games Trying
    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.
    Writing Jigsaw Puzzles Class
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