Quotes for the week: Vint Cerf (1943- )

Vint Cerf was one of the revolutionaries that developed the Internet Protocol (IP) which set the foundation for internet which we all have today.

Here are ten of his remarkable quotes; of course he is still alive so he can still add to it in the future. Here we go:

“I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.”

“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.”

“Although I’ve had major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.”

“But what we all have to learn is that we can’t do everything ourselves.”

“The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.”

“The internet lives where anyone can access it.”

“There’s a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.”

“Today, we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.”

“We had no idea this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.”

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

Enjoy the internet this week and remember a man named Vint Cerf who worked to make it possible.

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