Jon Postel Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Being in the limelight has its minuses.”

“Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.”

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

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

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

“The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.”