Jon Postel (1943-1998) was an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to Request for Comment (RFC), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). There are 4 quotes listed below.
1. "The internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together." (NetWorker Magazine, 1997)
2. "There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational." (AZQuotes.com)
3. "That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it." (AZQuotes.com)
4. "Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the networking group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be."
