Audrey MacLean Quotes

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

I really enjoy computer networking.

It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.

Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends.

One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

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 also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

I would say that in general, Cisco is a very strong research and development organization.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.

The first commercial routers came out about 1986, and services came in 1987.

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

In a sense, communications networks can be defined entirely by who has cryptographic keys, and I think a lot of networks will work that way in the future.

Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.