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Vinton Cerf quotes

American Inventor June 23, 1943

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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
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
Vinton Cerf quote: "Although I've had several major career changes, I was..."
Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them. Vinton Cerf
Vinton Cerf quote: "In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on..."
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vinton Cerf quote: "There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,'..."
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. 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
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
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
Vinton Cerf quote: "But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything..."
But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves. Vinton Cerf
Vinton Cerf quote: "I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by..."
I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices. Vinton Cerf

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