All Jon Postel Quotes
- The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together. Cooperate
- 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… Chemistry
- Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send. Accept
- A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there. Address
- But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection. Computer
- 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… Access
- 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… Consensus
- Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing. Everyone
- I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential… Address
- I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net. First Site
- 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… Audio
- In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior. Behavior
- One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems. Cable
- There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational. Almost Unanimity
- The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair. Domain
- 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… All
- 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… Ago
- Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive. Discussion
- The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted. Been
- That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort… Article