Vint Cerf Quotes

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.

The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.

Users and entrepreneurs building new business models off the blockchain means that there are competing interests on how best to scale the network. Linux, also an open source software project, had similar growing pains.

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.

It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.

The thing we have to be careful of is that the Internet is a global communications medium, and if one country tips the balance in regulating its use or regulating what companies or individuals do on the web, it could have an economic impact that might be unintended, quite frankly, by the regulations themselves.

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

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

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

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.

Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates opportunities for the development of the economy that wouldn't otherwise be available.

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

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

We’ve got to learn to govern in Internet time.