Vint Cerf Quotes

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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 Internet could be…
• The first commercial routers came out about 1986, and services came in 1987.
• In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.
• Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
• The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.
• With Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once,…
• Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.
• The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing…
• It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the…
• 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…
• Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long run, I think…
• 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…
• The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.
• 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…
• The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.
• I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.
• Free is not going to go away. Either the advertising model will still work, or there will still be literally hundreds of millions of people…
• Given that my title at Google is Chief Internet Evangelist, I feel like there is this great challenge before me because we have three billion…
• Sleep is a waste of time.
• Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built. That involves persuading…

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