Jon Postel Quotes

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me.

Patience is something that, as a young man, I didn't have - when waiting for parts to arrive or waiting for people to behave as I wanted them to.

I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.

My impression is that a really, really high-order concern for the whole development community is interoperability and consistency.

The most common characteristic of childhood building toys is that they snap together in one way or another. Technology is constantly shifting, and we should make sure that whatever we build is interoperable and pliable.

Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

Portability should be the default.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

You've got to be ready for everything. When it comes to everyone's opinion, that's what you've got to go through.

All of us gardeners know that nothing comes out the way you planned. It's a different garden every year, and it's always sort of different from what you were thinking when you began. What it really means to be a good gardener is to work hard to produce an ecosystem that will have enough diversity, enough possibilities, so it's robust, and it's resilient, and it can change when the seasons change. And that kind of robust, unexpected, variable, messy system - that's what you want to create when you're having children, too.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.

I'm not against Twitter or Facebook. I'm not against anything. Never say never.

Since the uprisings in the Middle East many scholars have come out saying that freedom comes first before the Shariah. There is also something important that we must keep in mind in our understanding the Shariah, and that is the room for what is permissible should be as wide as possible. So we should leave it open to let people be creative.

Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea. And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition.

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.

I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.

Let us try for once not to be right.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

Records don't have to be perfect.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.