Vint Cerf Quotes
By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
Quotes to Explore
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
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America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.
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Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.
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I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers.
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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.
