Vinton Cerf Quotes
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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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We live in a very complex world.
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Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.
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Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.
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There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
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Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.
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They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.
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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 the difficulty of voice communication.
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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
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In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.
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First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
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Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
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I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.
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I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.
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We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.
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So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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