Vint Cerf Quotes
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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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.
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Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.
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I wish I could do 50 projects a year.
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I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
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I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.
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Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.
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The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.
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We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.
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Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
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I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.
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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.
