While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put a single U.N. or other intergovernmental body in control of the Net. Vint Cerf Read Quote
You don’t have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it. Vint Cerf Read Quote
The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs. Vint Cerf Read Quote
The bottom-up, loosely-coupled, bilateral and multi-stakeholder practices that have created the network of networks we call the Internet allow for a broad range of business models. Vint Cerf Read Quote
In a town of 3,000 people, there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing. Vint Cerf Read Quote
Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet’s impact on people’s ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because we’ve become accustomed to looking up something, getting a snippet and being satisfied with that – as opposed to reading through and considering a weighty tome that goes into great depth. Vint Cerf Read Quote
For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That’s why apps are so popular. Vint Cerf Read Quote
Will we shoot virtually at each other over the Internet? Probably not. On the other hand, there may be wars fought about the Internet. Vint Cerf Read Quote
One of my favorite books is ‘The Swiss Family Robinson.’ The reason is, I’m fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do? Vint Cerf Read Quote
