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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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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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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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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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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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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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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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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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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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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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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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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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.
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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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If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.
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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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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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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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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
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There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
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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.