Vinton Cerf's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

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

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

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

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

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

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

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

We live in a very complex world.

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