Vint Cerf

Sleep is a waste of time.

— Vint Cerf

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

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

— 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.

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

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

— 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…

— Vint Cerf

The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests…

— Vint Cerf

The bottom-up, loosely-coupled, bilateral and multi-stakeholder practices that have created the network of networks we call the Internet allow for a broad…

— 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,…

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

Will we shoot virtually at each other over the Internet? Probably not. On the other hand, there may be wars fought about…

— 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…

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made…

— Vint Cerf

The three-piece suit has become sort of my trademark. You don't see them much anymore. It has several benefits: You may be…

— Vint Cerf

Improving the Internet is just one means, albeit an important one, by which to improve the human condition. It must be done…

— Vint Cerf

Several authoritarian regimes reportedly propose to ban anonymity from the web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents. At Google, we…

— Vint Cerf

To be honest, I joined Facebook as an experiment. I accepted all invitations just to see how many people would ask to…

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While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire…

— Vint Cerf

The Internet of Things tell us that a lot of computer-enabled appliances and devices are going to become part of this system,…

— Vint Cerf

Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built.…

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and…

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic.

— Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their…

— Vint Cerf

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

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

— 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…

— Vint Cerf