Vint Cerf

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

— Vint Cerf

Sleep is a waste of time.

— Vint Cerf

The first commercial routers came out about 1986, and services came in 1987.

— Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

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

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You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.

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I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.

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The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our…

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It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.

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It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.

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At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

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I think exploring the Internet's - and the Web's - ability to facilitate personal linkages is remarkable; and expect to see additional…

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Given that my title at Google is Chief Internet Evangelist, I feel like there is this great challenge before me because we…

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You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so…

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One thing that I can tell you that we have not done very well is to build in broadcast capability into the…

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The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In…

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When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for…

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The Internet is a really big tent. In theory, it can support the full range of models, one of which is, 'Here's…

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The immediacy of the mobile changes it from what we're accustomed to in the personal computing world to something that's instantaneous... What's…

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There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we…

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“The internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see. If we do…

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Free is not going to go away. Either the advertising model will still work, or there will still be literally hundreds of…

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No matter what you do, any country in the world is going to have the ability to set its own rules internally.…

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

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The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It's a conduit for criminal activity. We need international treaties…

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The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

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Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand…

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I want more Internet. I want every one of the 6 billion people on the planet to be able to connect to…

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It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the…

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Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the…

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I am annoyed by people that send messages via FaceBook because I get an e-mail telling me there is a message on…

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The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates…

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

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Some people argue we should solve all the problems on Earth before going off the planet, but that's like telling Lewis and…

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There is an odd mix of permeability and impermeability in the Net. You won't be able to communicate with everyone, and not…

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One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we…

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I used to tell jokes about Internet-enabled lightbulbs. I can't tell jokes about it anymore - there already is an Internet-connected lightbulb.

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The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to…

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

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