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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

Vinton Cerf

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I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.
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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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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.
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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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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 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'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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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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It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.
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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 the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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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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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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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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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.
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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.
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