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Vinton Cerf Inspirational Quotes (61)

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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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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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If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
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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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Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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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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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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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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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.
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The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
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I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
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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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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.
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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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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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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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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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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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