113 Quotes by Vinton Cerf

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

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

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.

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.

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.

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.