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Vint Cerf Quotes

I can’t say I’m particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we’re now seeing, whether it’s filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot.

– Vint Cerf

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

– Vint Cerf

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

– Vint Cerf

While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put a single U.N. or other intergovernmental body in control of the Net.

– Vint Cerf

Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.

– Vint Cerf

There’s nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.

– Vint Cerf

What would happen if our clothes were Internet-enabled? Can you imagine if you lost a sock? You could send out a search, and sock No. 3117 would respond that it’s under the couch in the living room.

– Vint Cerf

Energy, health care and education are just three examples of areas in which information and information management are critically important. How are we using our energy? What appliances in homes or business are consuming the most energy? When do they consume it? Can the load be shifted? How efficient are these devices?

– Vint Cerf

Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.

– Vint Cerf

In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.

– Vint Cerf

Although the FCC has tried to introduce net neutrality rules to avoid abusive practices like favoring your own services over others, they have struggled because there has been more than one court case in which it was asserted the FCC didn’t have the authority to punish ISPs for abusing their control over the broadband channel.

– Vint Cerf

I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.

– Vint Cerf

You don’t have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.

– Vint Cerf

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists – once burned – are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

– Vint Cerf

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

– Vint Cerf

What is special about VOIP is that it’s just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing – or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax – that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

– Vint Cerf

The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our own infrastructure. And we have to inter-connect to the public Internet.

– Vint Cerf

The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

– Vint Cerf

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

– Vint Cerf

At some point, you can’t lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

– Vint Cerf

In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that’s good.

– Vint Cerf

There is an odd mix of permeability and impermeability in the Net. You won’t be able to communicate with everyone, and not every application will be accessible to everyone.

– Vint Cerf

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

– Vint Cerf

There’s a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

– Vint Cerf

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

– Vint Cerf

There is a project that’s underway called the interplanetary Internet. It’s in operation between Earth and Mars. It’s operating on the International Space Station. It’s part of the spacecraft that’s in orbit around the Sun that’s rendezvoused with two planets.

– Vint Cerf

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we’re in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration’s course ignores reality.

– Vint Cerf

It’s the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

– Vint Cerf

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That’s why we have laws… The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

– Vint Cerf

Virtually any appliance is going to be online. Appliances will talk to each other and to the power-generation system. Our appliances will pay attention to our preferences.

– Vint Cerf

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