113 Quotes by Vinton Cerf

Of course, you do have to get accustomed to being satisfied a little bit at second-hand by people who actually do some of the key work.

Al Gore actually deserves a lot of credit. In about 1986, he started asking questions like, 'Why don't we take these supercomputers and these optical fiber networks and put them together. Would that do anything?' Well, guess what? That eventually turned into the National Science Foundation Network, which became a core element of the Internet.

This is a place that's just full of creative energy, and I like places like that,

This is not a new interest for me, ... It's just that I've spent the last decade or so working more on basic Internet infrastructure evolution at MCI. But I've been increasingly interested in focusing back on the application level, higher layer stuff. So this is a wonderful opportunity to pursue that.

This medium will enjoy wider-spread use than television, radio or phones, and will ultimately expand beyond planet Earth,

Allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success.

It's Chief Internet Evangelist, which suggests I should go from three-piece suits to some sort of ecclesiastical robes.

It's conceivable that the IPN could go like its terrestrial counterpart, starting out as a network supporting scientific research and eventually evolving into something of commercial interest,

It took 30 years to get the Internet to where we are now. Thirty years from now, we have to assume there will be colonies on the moon, colonies on Mars and other planets and research stations all over.