135 Quotes by Vint Cerf

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 internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

The Internet of Things tell us that a lot of computer-enabled appliances and devices are going to become part of this system, too: appliances that you use around the house, that you use in your office, that you carry around with yourself or in the car. That's the Internet of Things that's coming.

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.

I used to tell jokes about Internet-enabled lightbulbs. I can't tell jokes about it anymore - there already is an Internet-connected lightbulb.

I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.

It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.