Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

— Vint Cerf

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

— Vint Cerf

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

— Vint Cerf

The post office doesn't guarantee delivery, but it tries really hard. It's called best efforts communication. If you put two postcards in the post-box, they don't necessarily come out then in the same order that you put them in. So, that means that there's potentially disorder with your delivery, and that's also true in the Internet.

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

— Vint Cerf

We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic.

— Vint Cerf

Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard-of-hearing community as well.

— Vint Cerf

We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic.

— Vint Cerf

Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard-of-hearing community as well.

— Vint Cerf

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

— Vint Cerf

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

— Vint Cerf

And programming computers was so fascinating. You create your own little universe, and then it does what you tell it to do.

— Vint Cerf

There are some people who imagine that older adults don't know how to use the internet. My immediate reaction is, "I've got news for you, we invented it."

— Vint Cerf

The ability to interact with a computer presence like you would a human assistant is becoming increasingly feasible.

— Vint Cerf

You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

— Vint Cerf