Andrew J. Spano Quotes

There`s an old maxim that says, `Things that work persist,` which is why there`s still Cobol floating around.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

Because when these DDOS attacks swamp access lines, then filtering at the other end doesn`t help.

I expect that the entertainment industry will have gone through its own convulsion in the same way the telecom industry will have gone through its.

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

Although I`ve had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

Of course, I`ve done small company things, too, but most of them have been nonprofit organizations, such as the Internet Society, and I`m on the board of a number of small companies.

What is special about VOIP is that it`s just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

So one of the most important things we can do in the industry is make sure that the threat of cyberattacks is minimized as much as possible.

But what we all have to learn is that we can`t do everything ourselves.

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

At some point, you can`t lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

Of course, you do have to get accustomed to being satisfied a little bit at second-hand by people who actually do some of the key work.

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we`re in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration`s course ignores reality.

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

We live in a very complex world.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

People need to be exposed to what the various problems are in various parts of the business. And you can become isolated from that in a large company.

There`s a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department`s problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn`t want to be confined to a single network technology.

I`m projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that`s good.

If you need to understand it to make policy, you should turn first to people who are scientists and engineers for factual information.

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.