Vixie, Paul (Paul Vixie)

The Internet is not for sissies.
-- Paul Vixie

The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.
-- Paul Vixie

Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed.
-- Paul Vixie

You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?
-- Paul Vixie

Usually they finish by whining «but I WANT it!!!» and so, I tell them: «So what? Everybody wants something. I want a pony. Get over it.»
-- Paul Vixie

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.
-- Paul Vixie

With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.
-- Paul Vixie

Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.
-- Paul Vixie

don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called "the internet user base."
-- Paul Vixie

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