Vinton Cerf Quotes

#1. You listen to me," he told her, his voice a low, brusque rumble. "I'd rather take corn mush from your hand - morning, noon, and night - than chicken and apple pie from any other. And that's the plain truth.

Lori Benton

#2. 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.

Vinton Cerf

#3. Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

Thomas Hobbes

#4. Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.

Maajid Nawaz

#5. 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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#6. The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.

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#7. There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.

Osho

#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

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#11. Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.

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#12. 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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#13. I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

Linda Barnes

#14. 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.

Vinton Cerf

#15. 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.

Vinton Cerf

#16. The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.

Vinton Cerf

#17. Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

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#18. 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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#19. That MacGregor and Bibighar are the place of the white and the place of the black? To get from one to the other you could not cross by a bridge but had to your courage in your hands and enter the flood and let yourself be taken with it, lead where it may.

Paul Scott

#20. I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.

Vinton Cerf

#21. What manner of man would lose a loved one and still have the right mind-frame to perform his work?

S.A. David

#22. 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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#23. My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Charles Dickens

#24. 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.

Vinton Cerf

#25. 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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#26. Yet they were so tempting. Because they all had those blissful views of the river. Mum liked to sit on her balcony, reading Swedish thrillers, drinking supermarket Chardonnay.

S.K. Tremayne

#27. I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#28. On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!

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#29. The world is filled with fools like S'kot, and worse, with the fools who let them act as wardens over them. They deserve each other. I don't care what they think of me and neither should you.

R. Lee Smith

#30. 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.

Vinton Cerf

#31. 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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