Inspiration
“The Computer as a Communication Device”
J.C.R. Linklider and Robert W. Taylor
©Science and Technology 1968
"You might say, on September 2nd, when this first connection was made, the Internet took its first breath of life.”
— Leonard Kleinrock (Jan 13, 2009)
"We chose a 32-bit address space in 1973 in order to carry out an experiment. I want to emphasize that we thought this was an experiment. What I thought was that if the experiment succeeded, then we would design a production version of the system. Well, the problem is that the experiment never ended, and so we're still using the experimental internet.”
— Vint Cerf (May 16, 2012)
“The essence of technology, which is the field that I come out of is that it's the unpredictable discoveries that tend to define what the future is like. We call them the nonlinearities. You can easily look at the past and project linearly what's going to happen. So bandwidth will keep increasing, computer power will keep increasing. It's the things we don't now know about that suddenly show up through somebody's inspiration or investment in a new idea that can suddenly change the dynamic of the whole internet.”
— Dr. Robert Kahn (April 23, 2009)
“It's just an instrument to my way of thinking, something that allows us to do wonderful things, credible, technical achievement. I was glad to be a little part of it.”
— Elizabeth Feinler (July 30, 2018)
“If you have good people, they become great when you present them with what's a seemingly insurmountable challenge and you give them the trust to take risks without fear of any individual consequences from failure. And we certainly had that.”
— Jordan Becker (Nov 29, 2007)
“I don't want geography to be in the way of people who have mutual interests. So we use the ARPANET which was not an internet, you understand? It was a single network. We use the ARPANET to make it possible for researchers at one place to communicate in various ways through programs or data or email with other researchers in a other places. So you had a community of people who shared interests because they were all doing computer research. So it was natural.”
— Bob Taylor (March 3, 2003)
“Measurement and monitoring, and mapping are essential to cybersecurity. We cannot secure what we cannot measure.”
— KC Claffy (October, 26, 2017)
“The thing that makes the computer communication networks special is that inputs, the workers, that'd be the team members who are geographically distributed, in touch not only with one another but with the information base with which they work all the time. So that when they get to developing plans, the blueprints, as it were, don't have to be copied and sent all around the country. The blueprints come out of the database and appear on everybody's scopes. And the correlation, the coordination of the activity, is essentially right there in the computer network itself. And this is obviously going to make a tremendous difference in how we plan, organize, and execute almost everything of any intellectual consequence.”
— J. C. R. Licklider