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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.

Vinton Cerf

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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.
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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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There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.
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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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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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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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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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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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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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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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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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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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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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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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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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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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