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• I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

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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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• 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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• In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that’s good.

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

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• At some point, you can’t lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

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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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• What is special about VOIP is that it’s just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing – or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax – that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

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• The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people – the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

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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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