A biography for Vint Cerfhasn’t been written yet.
“There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.”
“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.”
“I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.”
“To be honest, I joined Facebook as an experiment. I accepted all invitations just to see how many people would ask to be 'friends' - it quickly overwhelmed my time to process even the invitations and requests, let alone to actually go there and do anything.”
“The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our own infrastructure. And we have to inter-connect to the public Internet.”
“There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; otherwise, there is a risk it won't be open anymore. We spent quite a bit of time with Verizon policy people in addition to participating in a multilateral discussion with the Federal Communications Commission.”
“In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.”
“Privacy may actually be an anomaly.”
“Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates opportunities for the development of the economy that wouldn't otherwise be available.”
“You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.”
“I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.”
“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.”
“One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?”
“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.”
“I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.”
“The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.”
“Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.”