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I'm disappointed in people in general.

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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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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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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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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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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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 computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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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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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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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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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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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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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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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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At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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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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