Vint Cerf Quotes
I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.
Quotes to Explore
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
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I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.
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I think that the marketplace has changed in many dramatic ways but actually in some sense it's remained the same because the challenge of creating quality programming is the same, and I've always thought that if you follow the great material everything else will fall in to place.
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I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.
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The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.
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My favorite movie of all-time is 'Stand By Me,' and I re-read my favorite young adult books often.
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I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.
