“If you have a strong opinion on X, and Tim doesn't share it, well, it may be a little tricky to get a standard out, Tim is the key to ensuring a consistent architecture, to keeping things from fragmenting.”
“We didn't get serious about security early enough. The Internet carefully delivers that virus to your door because its job is to deliver packets and not to inquire whether the application is good for you. The 'Net by itself is doing what it should do, but we don't have intrinsic integrity and authentication. We didn't do that way back when, and it should have been done.”