David Ulevitch famous quotes

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.
-- David Ulevitch

#Birthday #Mother #Cake

DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet.
-- David Ulevitch

#Kind #Internet #Hamsters

Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.
-- David Ulevitch

#People #Breakfast #Incentives

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.
-- David Ulevitch

#Engineering #Community #Google

One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.
-- David Ulevitch

#Running #Boss #Way

I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.
-- David Ulevitch

#Summer #Jobs #San Diego

Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.
-- David Ulevitch

#Tired #Hearing #Whiners

Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.
-- David Ulevitch

#Running #Successful #Winning

The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.
-- David Ulevitch

#Real #Viruses #Different

I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.
-- David Ulevitch

#Thinking #Diversity #Important