Vint Cerf Quotes

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

The music industry really has to learn a lesson from the tech industry about what scale means at the end of the day and learning how to monetize.

You can't replicate Seamless or OpenTable for another industry.

European and American banks are conservative in the sense that they don't come at their full strength to markets where we are; that leaves us an opportunity to be successful.

Cerner has significant growth opportunities. We believe there is leverage with HNA Millennium and in our business model that can grow both our top-line and earnings during 2000 and through the foreseeable part of this decade.

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

We are not going to compete for programs where we do not believe we can get a fair and sufficient return.

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.

The best companies are the ones that offer their products for free.

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form of electronic marketplace.

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.

Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

It's no longer the older paradigm of, 'I want to own this market, and no one else can own this market because I own this market.' The Internet has made the market limitless.

Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.

The purpose of a business is to create customers.

Patents have not been a positive force in stimulating innovation at Cisco. Competition has been the motivator; bringing new products to market in a timely manner is critical. Everything we have done to create new products would have been done even if we could not obtain patents

I used to have a lot more hair before I got involved with this milk business …. We don't have a lot of public support for our milk policies and that probably indicates we're doing it right.

Manufacturers have stood in the pillory for presuming to carry on their business by new and improved methods.

A country’s Internet infrastructure, just like it’s physical infrastructure, is essential to its economic competition and growth.

People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.

The swamp is a business model. It's a successful business model.

Someone is out there looking to put you out of business. Someone is out there who thinks they have a better idea than you have. A better solution than you have. A better or more efficient product than you have.