15. No one can afford to become a network dictator again.
16. Networking: Yin and Yang Stuff you control Stuff someone else controls
17. God, grant me the serenity to accept the network elements I cannot change; the courage to change the network elements I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.
24. Q: What element did both the Internet and Ma Bell control? A: Addressing. Jon Postel, Original Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) North American Numbering Plan (NANP)
32. Unlike in global warming, however, this almost never gets smaller.
33. The only reason God could create the world in six days was because He didn't have to worry about the installed base .* * Enzo Torresi, Einar Stefferud, Esther Dyson, or someone else
34. Unfortunately, often today’s hot new technology …. Becomes that junky old stuff that drags down the whole installed base. 1999 2008