Vinton Cerf

I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people…

— Vinton Cerf

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

— Vinton Cerf

Google’s objective is to organize the world’s information and to make it accessible. Unicode plays a central role in this effort because…

— Vinton Cerf

The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral…

— Vinton Cerf

The Internet reflects the societies in which we live, and so the content on the Net and some of the abuses that…

— Vinton Cerf

If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and…

— Vinton Cerf

I'm disappointed in people in general.

— Vinton Cerf

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something…

— Vinton Cerf

The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were…

— Vinton Cerf

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life.…

— Vinton Cerf

There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the…

— Vinton Cerf

I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of…

— Vinton Cerf

My belief is that there will be very large numbers of Internet-enabled devices on the Net - home appliances, office equipment, things…

— Vinton Cerf

On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!

— Vinton Cerf

By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for…

— Vinton Cerf

Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy…

— Vinton Cerf

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

— Vinton Cerf

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis…

— Vinton Cerf

Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead…

— Vinton Cerf

I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does…

— Vinton Cerf

I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were…

— Vinton Cerf

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going…

— Vinton Cerf

At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown,

— Vinton Cerf

In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated…

— Vinton Cerf

People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.

— Vinton Cerf