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Vinton Cerf (30)

Birth:	23rd June, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Computer Scientist

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Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with American computer scientist Bob Kahn.

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• The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

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• In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that’s good.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• What is special about VOIP is that it’s just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing – or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax – that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

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• We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

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• 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.

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• There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

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• We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.

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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.

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• I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

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• 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.

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• Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

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

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• 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.

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• Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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