Sherman Austin Quotes

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

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

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

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

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.

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.

I really enjoy computer networking.

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

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.

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

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

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

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

When I first started running there were no computers. There was no such thing as a laptop.

FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability.

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

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.