Quotes from Vinton Cerf

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.

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

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

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.

There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.

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

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.

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

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

The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

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

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

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.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.

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.