Vint Cerf Quotes

Vint Cerf

Profession : Scientist

Birth : June 23, 1943

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

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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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Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard-of-hearing community as well.

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

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Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.

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The post office doesn't guarantee delivery, but it tries really hard. It's called best efforts communication. If you put two postcards in the post-box, they don't necessarily come out then in the same order that you put them in. So, that means that there's potentially disorder with your delivery, and that's also true in the Internet.

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You should know that 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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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

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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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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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Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

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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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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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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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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

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I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

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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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There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

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