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1. "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." ~ Jon Postel
2. "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." ~ Jon Postel
3. "All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it." ~ Jon Postel
4. "Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing." ~ Jon Postel
5. "But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection." ~ Jon Postel
6. "Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive." ~ Jon Postel
7. "I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net." ~ Jon Postel
8. "I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet." ~ Jon Postel
9. "The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together." ~ Jon Postel
10. "The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair." ~ Jon Postel
11. "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
12. "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." ~ Jon Postel
13. "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." ~ Jon Postel
14. "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 to the use and operation of the Internet." ~ Jon Postel
15. "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." ~ Jon Postel
16. "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 it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same." ~ Jon Postel
17. "TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file." ~ Jon Postel
18. "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." ~ Jon Postel

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