Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

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

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

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

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.