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Vinton Cerf

"In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology."

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Donna Grant

"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."

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Donna Grant

"We are so much distracted nowadays. There is so much distractions in the world today call it internet, media, football matches etc. but don't let it consume you."

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Donna Grant

"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."

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Donna Grant

"Knowing how things work reduces the effort.This is the fundamental principle of technology."

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Donna Grant

"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."

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Donna Grant

"Quite amazing, isn't it, Mister Lipwig?' he said cheerfully through the smoke. 'Though isn't it a pity that they can only run on rails? I can't imagine what the world would be like if everyone had their own steam locomotive. Abominable."

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Donna Grant

"When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice."

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Donna Grant

"The day internet stops functioning forever, so many works will get missing forever!"

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Donna Grant

"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."

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Donna Grant

"In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing."

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

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

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

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Vinton Cerf
"In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology."

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Vinton Cerf
"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."

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Vinton Cerf
"I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time."

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

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