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

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
Vinton Cerf

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

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