Top 20 Vinton Cerf Quotes
#1. Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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#2. I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.
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#3. Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
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#4. On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
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#5. The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.
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#6. It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.
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#7. The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.
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#8. I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
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#9. I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.
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#10. The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
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#11. I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.
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#12. What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.
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#13. They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.
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#15. Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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#16. I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.
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#17. I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
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#18. The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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#19. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
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#20. 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.
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