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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By 1988, I'm seeing this commercial phenomenon beginning to show up. Hardware makers are selling routers to universities so they can build up their campus networks. So I remember thinking, 'Well, how are we going to get this in the hands of the gener...

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I am annoyed by people that send messages via FaceBook because I get an e-mail telling me there is a message on FaceBook - so I end up processing two messages for every one sent.

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I want more Internet. I want every one of the 6 billion people on the planet to be able to connect to the Internet - I think they will add things to it that will really benefit us all.

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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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What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

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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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There is an odd mix of permeability and impermeability in the Net. You won't be able to communicate with everyone, and not every application will be accessible to everyone.

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Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we are just going to live through a lot of these issues until we discover what social norms make sense.

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While the United States has never decreed that everyone has a 'right' to a telephone, we have come close to this with the notion of 'universal service' - the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must be available,...

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While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put a single U.N. or other intergovernmental body in control of the Net.

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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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It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.

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Free is not going to go away. Either the advertising model will still work, or there will still be literally hundreds of millions of people who want to put their information on the Net and want people to have access to it.

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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