Vinton Cerf Quotes

• Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

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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.

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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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• We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

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• We live in a very complex world.

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• We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

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• Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

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

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• There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

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• There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

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• There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

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• Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address – just one – this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.

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  Tags in Internet, Just

• The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

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

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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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• My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we’re in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration’s course ignores reality.

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• Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

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

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• First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists – once burned – are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

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  Tags in First, Internet

Vinton Cerf (30)

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

About

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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