Vint Cerf Quotes

I really enjoy computer networking.

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.

Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends.

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability.

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

The first commercial routers came out about 1986, and services came in 1987.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.

The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.

The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

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.

Older generations of Wi-Fi weren't quite robust enough to deliver video in the home without breaking up and losing packets and so forth. 5G Wi-Fi gives you extended reach, extended data rates, and more robust coverage.