Quote

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.

Vinton Cerf

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vinton Cerf
Imagine
Imaginative
Turns
Profound
Future
Impact
Sometimes
Figure
Something
Build
Think
Figures
Thinking
Exercise
Turn
Exercises

More quotes by Vinton Cerf

Image
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
Image
By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
Vinton Cerf
Image
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
Image
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.
Vinton Cerf
Image
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.
Vinton Cerf
Image
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
Image
The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
Vinton Cerf
Image
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
Image
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
Vinton Cerf
Image
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.
Vinton Cerf
Image
I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
Vinton Cerf
Image
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
Image
There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
Vinton Cerf
Image
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
Vinton Cerf
Image
If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
Vinton Cerf
Image
Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.
Vinton Cerf
Image
At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
Vinton Cerf
Image
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
Image
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.
Vinton Cerf
Image
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
Vinton Cerf