American - Scientist | June 23, 1943 -
It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.
Vint Cerf
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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.
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The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.
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In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was all any telecom engineer worried about.
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I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.
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My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
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It may seem like sort of a waste of time to play 'World of Warcraft' with your son. But you're actually interacting with each other. You're solving problems. They may seem like simple problems, but you're solving them. You're posed with challenges that you have to overcome. You're on a quest to gain certain capabilities.
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Some people argue we should solve all the problems on Earth before going off the planet, but that's like telling Lewis and Clark to stay put until the rest of the East was settled. No way.
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I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
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Like almost every major infrastructure, the Internet can be abused and its users harmed. We must, however, take great care that the cure for these ills does not do more harm than good. The benefits of the open and accessible Internet are nearly incalculable, and their loss would wreak significant social and economic damage.
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Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
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I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.
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