Bob Kahn Quotes

United States, Engineer
December 23, 1938

Robert Elliot Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an American electrical engineer, who, along with Vint Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.

In terms of dangers, such as viruses, fraud or identity theft, I don't think we were thinking about that at all when we got started. If we had been worried about that, the net might have been better today, but we might not have even got there.

Bob Kahn
- Thinking
- Today
- Identity
You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

Bob Kahn
- Future
- Society

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

Bob Kahn