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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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• But what we all have to learn is that we can’t do everything ourselves.

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• Although I’ve had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

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

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• There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

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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.

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• We live in a very complex world.

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• The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

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

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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.

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Vinton Cerf (30)

Birth:	23rd June, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Computer Scientist

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Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with American computer scientist Bob Kahn.

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