Quotes by Vint Cerf

About Vint Cerf:

Vinton Gray is an American Internet pioneer, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with American engineer Bob Kahn and Donald Davies. His contributions have been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Marconi Prize and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
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Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

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There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; otherwise, there is a risk it won't be open anymore. We spent quite a bit of time with Verizon policy people in addition to participating in a multilat...

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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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I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.

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85% of all video we watch is pre-recorded, so you can set your system to download it all the time. You're still going to need live television for certain things - like news, sporting events and emergencies - but increasingly it is going to be almost ...

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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 boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

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Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchan...

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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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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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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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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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It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.

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There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.

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

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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

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Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates opportunities for the development of the economy that wouldn't otherwise be available.

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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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Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

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Author Bio

  • NameVint Cerf
  • DescriptionAmerican computer scientist
  • AliasesVinton Gray Cerf; Vinton Cerf; Vinton G. Cerf
  • BornJune 23, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionComputer Scientist; Engineer
  • AwardsTuring Award; National Medal Of Technology And Innovation; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Japan Prize; Queen Elizabeth Prize For Engineering; Princess Of Asturias Award - Technical And Scientific Research; Charles Stark Draper Prize; Harold Pender Award; IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal; EFF Pioneer Award