Vint Cerf Quotes
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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
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By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
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I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
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My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
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The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
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In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
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I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
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It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.
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So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
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First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
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I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.
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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.