135 Quotes by Vint Cerf

What would happen if our clothes were Internet-enabled? Can you imagine if you lost a sock? You could send out a search, and sock No. 3117 would respond that it's under the couch in the living room.

When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.

We're not confident that the funds will be made available and we don't want to rely on them, ... The GIP decided we should provide some certainty.

Global standards and interoperability are very powerful concepts. They drove the Internet, and they could drive the development of RFID. If we have a lot of incompatible things, their value will drop significantly.

People are concerned because they don't know what the agreements that NSI and the government came to are,

Some of us feel NAT boxes are sort of an abomination because they really do mess about with the basic protocol architecture of the Internet.

I wish we were getting a handle on this problem, but I think it's pretty substantial. There's an uneasy feeling that going online is risky.

Why would they be soliciting the opinion of a pun writer about this?

We risk losing the Internet as a catalyst for consumer choice, for economic growth, for technological innovation and for global competitiveness.