Vinton Cerf Quotes About Internet

Quotes about: Internet

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

  Vinton Cerf

  Long, Growth, Doe

• 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.

  Vinton Cerf

  Special, Fax, Telephones

• 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.

  Vinton Cerf

  Dog, Business, Years

• 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.

  Vinton Cerf

  Numbers, Internet, Speed

• 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.

  Vinton Cerf

  Thinking, Eight, Years

  "Vint Cerf: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2008.

• 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.

  Vinton Cerf

  Success, Impact, Design

• 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.

  Vinton Cerf

  Country, Math, Space

• 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

  Light, Media, World

• 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.

  Vinton Cerf

  Innovation, Lasts, Evolution

• Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.

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  Smart, Information Flow, Information Sharing

• The Internet reflects the societies in which we live, and so the content on the Net and some of the abuses that you see on the Net are reflections of that.

  Vinton Cerf

  Reflection, Abuse, Internet

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  Vinton Cerf

  Entrepreneur, Decision, Investing

• 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.

  Vinton Cerf

  Country, Numbers, Fundamentals

• My belief is that there will be very large numbers of Internet-enabled devices on the Net - home appliances, office equipment, things in the car and maybe things that you carry around. And since they're all on the Internet and Internet-enabled, they'll be manageable through the network, and so we'll see people using the Net and applications on the Net to manage their entertainment systems, manage their, you know, office activities and maybe even much of their social lives using systems on the Net that are helping them perform that function.

  Vinton Cerf

  Home, Numbers, Car

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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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  Innovation, Internet, Middle

• The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

  Vinton Cerf

  Internet, Access

  "London computer club is blamed in major 'cybersquatting' case", www.cnn.com. June 1, 1999.

• In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.

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  Choices, Tolls, World

• If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.

  Vinton Cerf

  Web Content, Overcoming, Different

  "Analysis: Web sites are locking out the disabled" by Judy Heim, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2000.

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