Ten Quotes by Jon Postel

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…

— Jon Postel

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

— Jon Postel

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

— Jon Postel

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

— Jon Postel

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

— Jon Postel

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

— Jon Postel

Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

— Jon Postel

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

— Jon Postel

All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.

— Jon Postel

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…

— Jon Postel

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

— Jon Postel

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.

— Jon Postel