John Patrick Quotes

Mesh networking is an old idea. Oddly enough, the low-cost XO Laptop built by the 'One Laptop Per Child' organization - the so-called $100 laptop - was designed with built-in mesh networking. The idea with the XO machine was that many kids using those laptops would be out in rural areas without reliable Internet access.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

I'm a big user of digital technology, but I don't find it beautiful.

My biggest challenges when I first started out were not having a computer or camera or Wi-Fi! The computer and the camera had to be borrowed, and there were times that I used the computer at the library, and I literally sat outside people's houses to steal their Internet connections.

Broadband is not a luxury; it's critical infrastructure.

Infrastructure investment is critical to closing the digital divide in our country and bringing high-speed Internet access to more rural Americans.

The Internet is not pervasive as it could be, or democratic.

No one will use the new Internet if it's slow, costs money and doesn't scale.

To say that Wi-Fi is a critical component of Internet access in today's always-connected society doesn't do it justice.

Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.

Down the country, people in rural areas are struggling to get a speed of even 1 MB, not much better than the old dial-up system we used to have when the system was in relative infancy.

I find myself without Internet a fair bit in the house I live in in Streatham.

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

What darkness to you is light to me

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.

I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

History is only a value of relation.

For a long time at Nintendo we didn't focus as much on online play because for many years doing so would have limited the size of the audience that could enjoy those features. But certainly now we see that so many people are connected to the Internet. It opens up a tremendous amount of possibilities.

Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.