Vint Cerf Quotes

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.

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.

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

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

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

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.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet.

We tend to look at computers and the Internet as items of nicety. In the 21st century, they will be items of necessity.

There's no such thing as the 'Irish Internet.' It's just the Internet.

The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn't have imagined: a distributed information source, which is invisible to everyone, where you can access anything, and it's distributed throughout the whole world. Basically, communication is instantaneous.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.

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

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

I don't take for granted all the blessings that I have, and as soon as I heard about Computers for Youth, I really wanted to be involved. Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I'm a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have a computer in his or her home.

I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

We must close the digital divide.

The global economy and its technologies can be hugely liberating for those in a position to take advantage of them.

Ordinary Chinese are also getting unprecedented access to information. More than half a billion Chinese now use the Internet.

A country’s Internet infrastructure, just like it’s physical infrastructure, is essential to its economic competition and growth.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.