Vint Cerf Quotes

Vint Cerf

Profession : Scientist

Birth : June 23, 1943

We live in a very complex world.

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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 ignores reality.

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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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I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

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Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

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In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

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In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.

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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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Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.

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

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In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.

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To be honest, I joined Facebook as an experiment. I accepted all invitations just to see how many people would ask to be 'friends' - it quickly overwhelmed my time to process even the invitations and requests, let alone to actually go there and do anything.

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When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

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The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

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With Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once, if you wish, to multiple sites. Can you imagine then forcing the search engines to somehow not index that information?

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We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt.

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Some people argue we should solve all the problems on Earth before going off the planet, but that's like telling Lewis and Clark to stay put until the rest of the East was settled. No way.

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The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source.

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