Vint Cerf quotes - page 2

In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good. (Vint Cerf)
I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices. View quote
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I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time. View quote
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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. View quote
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And programming computers was so fascinating. You create your own little universe, and then it does what you tell it to do. View quote
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The ability to interact with a computer presence like you would a human assistant is becoming increasingly feasible. View quote
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There are some people who imagine that older adults don't know how to use the internet. My immediate reaction is, "I've got news for you, we invented it." View quote
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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. View quote
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In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology. View quote
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It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity. View quote
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Remember, 'governance' is a big word that includes human rights, freedom of speech, economic transactions on a worldwide basis - it touches everything. It's everywhere, and that's why Internet governance is Topic A in many corners. (Vint Cerf)
In a town of 3,000 people, there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing. View quote
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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. View quote
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Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, ... We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications. View quote
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Privacy may actually be an anomaly. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs. View quote
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