Vinton Cerf Quotes

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

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.

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

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.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

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.

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.

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

The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.