Vint Cerf Quotes

Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.

Vint Cerf

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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.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Bird
  • Hot
  • Chickens