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Jon Postel Quotes

American - Scientist | August 6, 1943 - October 16, 1998

Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.

Work Our Multimedia Another Aspect

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

Group Discussion Productive Valuable

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.

Ugly Space Treat Name You Nice

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

Together People Internet Things Lot

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

You Accept Others Conservative

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

Name Seek Where Get Route How

I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.

God Me Think Internet I Think Thing

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

Student First Involved Got Net UCLA

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.

Me Writing Puzzle Weird Doing Kind

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

Time Job School Research Performance

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

Good Home Connection Pretty Computer

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.

Data You Want Kind Hard Without

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