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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

Vinton Cerf

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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.
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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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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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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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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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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 has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
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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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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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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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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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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.
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What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.
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We live in a very complex world.
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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 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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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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Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard of hearing community as well.
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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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