I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.

Vinton Cerf

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

Vinton Cerf

growth doe long

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.

Vinton Cerf

information-flow information-sharing smart

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

Vinton Cerf

access mankind information

I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.

Vinton Cerf

eight years thinking

The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.

Vinton Cerf

impact design success

Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.

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kentucky hot bird

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

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fax telephones special

I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.

Vinton Cerf

power-corrupts giving believe

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.

Vinton Cerf

business dog years

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

Vinton Cerf

access internet

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

Vinton Cerf

Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.

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surf coincidence

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

Vinton Cerf

impact exercise thinking

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

Vinton Cerf

engineering data administration

At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.

Vinton Cerf

google government danger

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

Vinton Cerf

alternatives technology believe

On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!

Vinton Cerf

serious-work email firsts

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

Vinton Cerf

computer

In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.

Vinton Cerf

range company goes-on

It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.

Vinton Cerf

organisation individual reflection