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Type: Inventor Quotes Category: American Inventor Quotes Date of Birth: June 23, 1943 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Vinton Cerf Related Authors: Thomas A. Edison R. Buckminster Fuller Charles Kettering Dean Kamen Andy Hertzfeld Orville Wright David Sarnoff

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them. Vinton Cerf 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 Because when these DDOS attacks swamp access lines, then filtering at the other end doesn't help. Vinton Cerf But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves. Vinton Cerf 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. Vinton Cerf I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices. Vinton Cerf I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA. Vinton Cerf 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. Vinton Cerf In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good. Vinton Cerf In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology. Vinton Cerf In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. Vinton Cerf 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. Vinton Cerf 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 Of course, I've done small company things, too, but most of them have been nonprofit organizations, such as the Internet Society, and I'm on the board of a number of small companies. Vinton Cerf 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. Vinton Cerf The computer would do anything you programmed it to do. Vinton Cerf The Internet lives where anyone can access it. Vinton Cerf 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. Vinton Cerf 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. Vinton Cerf There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration. Vinton Cerf 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 There was something amazingly enticing about programming. Vinton Cerf There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China. Vinton Cerf There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. Vinton Cerf Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion. Vinton Cerf We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure. Vinton Cerf We live in a very complex world. Vinton Cerf What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network. Vinton Cerf Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time. Vinton Cerf Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs. Vinton Cerf

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