communication protocol Quotes

I called the hotel operator and she said, "How can I direct your call?" I said, "Well, you could say 'Action!', and I'll begin to dial. And when I say 'Goodbye', then you can yell 'Cut!'"

The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the rule was, only the secretary-general speaks to the press; only the secretary-general makes... So you would see many situations where under-secretaries-general would come in and speak. I opened that, and I encouraged all of them to speak in their areas, whether it was peacekeeping or humanitarian efforts.

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

I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.

Nobody speaks twice until everyone has had a chance to speak once

Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper and not the White House press corps at large, or notify the public in a national way.

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

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

Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a cloud that looks like a monkey.

McKinley did not once give a speech to the nation without either wiring, telephoning or writing me, and sending me his speeches before delivering them.

Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.

If we do change anything, we always talk about it beforehand. It's not really fair to throw things at the director on the day, unless it's a small note such as re-phrasing something. But if it's large, we always talk to the director. But we seldom do that out of respect for the writers because, for the most part, they do such a great job.

Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.