Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
Vinton Cerf

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
Vinton Cerf

We live in a very complex world.
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

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

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 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