Vint Cerf Quotes
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Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard of hearing community as well.
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We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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My belief is that there will be very large numbers of Internet-enabled devices on the Net - home appliances, office equipment, things in the car and maybe things that you carry around. And since they're all on the Internet and Internet-enabled, they'll be manageable through the network, and so we'll see people using the Net and applications on the Net to manage their entertainment systems, manage their, you know, office activities and maybe even much of their social lives using systems on the Net that are helping them perform that function.
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If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
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The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.
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I'm disappointed in people in general.
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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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The Internet reflects the societies in which we live, and so the content on the Net and some of the abuses that you see on the Net are reflections of that.