Vint Cerf Quotes

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

I think the Internet is a huge positive.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.

We're living in an age where we should be collaborating. Because it's the Internet now. It's hard to say who owns what.

The Internet creates transparency, creates a change of mentality, brings people together.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.

I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.

The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

There's huge access to information. If you need to learn something, you can go on the Internet and learn very quickly. You can reach across miles and miles to find companies that can assist you.

The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

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

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.