Vinton Cerf Quotes

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• There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
• There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
• I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
• The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation…
• First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas…
• 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…
• Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
• In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
• Privacy may actually be an anomaly,
• The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
• But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
• Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.
• At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown,
• Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
• We live in a very complex world.
• There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
• If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
• By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
• 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…
• The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its…

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