Vint Cerf Quotes

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.

What I tell business leaders is you're in the space industry - you just don't know it yet. Every industry will be impacted by space. The internet would not exist without space-based communication.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

I get really excited imagining what we can do in the future with broadband.

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

We now have powerful technology, which allows us a voice across boundaries, which was unimaginable at the time of the Greenham Protest, a protest that pre-dates the Internet and the mobile phone.

Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

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

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.