Beginning Quote by Vint Cerf

The internet is something created largely by public funding.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Vint Cerf

We feel there is already widespread broadband available today.

— John Britton

If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks.…

— Drew Curtis

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

— Paul Samuelson

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and affordable to people historically kept out of it. It…

— Ben Hecht

Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the Internet will…

— Tyler Cowen

We are now in a situation in which we will have to rely on market forces to maintain a free and open Internet. And…

— Brian Schatz

I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry…

— Clifford Stoll

As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but…

— Marvin Ammori

We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to…

— Bill Gates

I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.

— Bill Gates