I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very complimentary, because the author suggested that I wasn't doing a very good job, and that I ought to be replaced by a 'professional.' Of course, there isn't any 'God of the Internet.' The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

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

Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements…

In the Middle Ages people built cathedrals, where the whole town would get together and make a thing that's greater than any individual person could do and the…

There is nothing less inspiring and more unhelpful to the citizens of Oregon than the sound of one-hand clapping. I need your hand to join my hand.