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David Dana "Dave" Clark is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer who has been involved with Internet developments since the mid-1970s. He currently works as a senior research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory .



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✵ 7. April 1944
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“We reject: kings, presidents and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.”

A Cloudy Crystal Ball -- Visions of the Future, PDF, 1992-07-16, 2016-05-13 https://groups.csail.mit.edu/ana/People/DDC/future_ietf_92.pdf, (Presentation given at the 24th Internet Engineering Task Force)
frequently cited as the motto of the Internet engineering community

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