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Vint Cerf

American Scientist

Born: Jun 23, 1943

About Internet People Technology Will You

Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming

Sleep is a waste of time. Vint Cerf

Time Waste Waste Of Time Sleep

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless. Vint Cerf

You People Smart Internet Power About Remain Share Sharing Smart People Ideas Powerless Anonymous Anything Information Them Your Flow

History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate. Vint Cerf

Freedom History Rights Fate Internet Controlling Human Rights Other Must Citizens Collectively Similar Examples Taking Freedom Of Expression Freedoms Protect Make Sure Access Governments Human Information Declaration Actions Expression Rife Universal Harm

You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young. Vint Cerf

You Technology Young About Feel Learn

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do. Vint Cerf

You Would Computer Anything Programmed

Energy, health care and education are just three examples of areas in which information and information management are critically important. How are we using our energy? What appliances in homes or business are consuming the most energy? When do they consume it? Can the load be shifted? How efficient are these devices? Vint Cerf

Education Health Business Management Care Three Important Energy Our Critically Examples Area Consume Consuming Devices Most Health Care How Shifted Efficient Just Information Which Using Homes Appliances Load

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. Vint Cerf

Privacy may actually be an anomaly. Vint Cerf

Privacy Anomaly May Actually

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

Would No Idea Had Idea Global Public Infrastructure Turn

Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs. Vint Cerf

See Bugs Still Continuous Reports

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

Energy Increasingly Tremendous Tremendous Amount China Japan Amount

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. Vint Cerf

Business First Sense Once Area Investing Investment Developments Terms First Of All Make Venture Cautious Very Burned Capitalists Business Sense Now Actually

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. Vint Cerf

You Internet Telephone Fax About Network Only Exception Another Modem Just The Only Thing Whereas Public Special Switched Nearly Thing

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA. Vint Cerf

Nervous About Up Very Going Teach Stanford Even

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. Vint Cerf

You Direction Tendency Get Companies Larger

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. Vint Cerf

Me Critical Critical Mass Ability Given Bear Mass Because Been Very Effort Precisely Often Working Companies Larger Satisfying Bringing

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. Vint Cerf

Alone Time Facebook People Experiment To Be Honest Would See My Time Joined Invitations Accepted How How Many People Go Friends Quickly Overwhelmed Just Anything Process Ask Requests Many Even Actually Honest

The three-piece suit has become sort of my trademark. You don't see them much anymore. It has several benefits: You may be overdressed on some occasions, but you can manage to fit into a huge range of circumstances. Vint Cerf

You Benefits Become Several Range Circumstances See Some Occasions Sort Trademark Fit Huge Manage May Anymore Them Much Suit

We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt. Vint Cerf

Digital Wish Has-Been Easy Adopt Fact Never Share Environment Know Been Norms Information Which Social Transmit Capture Lived

Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication. Vint Cerf

Communication Would Mutually Off Commercialization Planet Reinforce Assets Growth

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