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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One thing that I can tell you that we have not done very well is to build in broadcast capability into the network, and we don't take advantage of broadcast radio.

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There is a project that's underway called the interplanetary Internet. It's in operation between Earth and Mars. It's operating on the International Space Station. It's part of the spacecraft that's in orbit around the Sun that's rendezvoused with tw...

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When I joined Google, they asked me what title I wanted. I said, 'What about archduke?' They said, 'Well, that didn't meet our nomenclature. Why don't you be our Chief Internet Evangelist?' This was in 2005.

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What would happen if our clothes were Internet-enabled? Can you imagine if you lost a sock? You could send out a search, and sock No. 3117 would respond that it's under the couch in the living room.

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The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It's a conduit for criminal activity. We need international treaties to prosecute the bad guys, but we don't have them.

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

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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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We live in a very complex world.

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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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In a town of 3,000 people, there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

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I used to tell jokes about Internet-enabled lightbulbs. I can't tell jokes about it anymore - there already is an Internet-connected lightbulb.

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I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.

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At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

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

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

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It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.

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The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a result, we have new ways to allow people to exercise their human and civil rights.

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The Internet is literally a network of networks.

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Will we shoot virtually at each other over the Internet? Probably not. On the other hand, there may be wars fought about the Internet.

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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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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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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