Network Topology Quotes

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.

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

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

I really enjoy computer networking.

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.

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

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

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

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.

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.

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

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.

No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub- and sub-sub-networks form a part of it.

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

The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

Some of the first infographics I did started off as notes to myself: trying to plot out, for instance, how IP addresses are allocated. After a while, I thought, 'This is a neat thing I can share with people, and they can follow me along in that process of understanding.'

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.