Vint Cerf Quotes

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.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

Britain helped create the Internet - Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.

When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

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

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

The first commercial routers came out about 1986, and services came in 1987.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

I really enjoy computer networking.

The basic technical protocols that have enabled the Internet to work in such a globally interconnected way are developed and shared openly by a community of engineers.

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

The Internet wasn't useful until some basic infrastructure was built.

Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.

By 1988, I'm seeing this commercial phenomenon beginning to show up. Hardware makers are selling routers to universities so they can build up their campus networks. So I remember thinking, 'Well, how are we going to get this in the hands of the general public?' There were no public Internet services at that point.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

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

Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends.

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

I would say that in general, Cisco is a very strong research and development organization.

In a sense, communications networks can be defined entirely by who has cryptographic keys, and I think a lot of networks will work that way in the future.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.