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Vinton Cerf

"The computer would do anything you programmed it to do."

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Donna Grant

"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

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Donna Grant

"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."

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Donna Grant

"There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them."

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Donna Grant

"Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers."

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Donna Grant

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

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Donna Grant

"I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit."

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Donna Grant

"The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash."

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Donna Grant

"So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers."

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Donna Grant

"Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us."

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Donna Grant

"No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!"

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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."

Energy

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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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