Vint Cerf Quotes

The Internet is a container, not a substance.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere - a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer - can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

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

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

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

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

One way or another, we need to understand that broadband is essentially telephone service, and just as we got to telephone service in the United States to one hundred per cent, we need to do it for broadband.

Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

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

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

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.

More and more of the world's population is gaining access to the same kind of computing power and connectivity that has transformed daily life for developed nations.

I found the Internet really fascinating.

You do not need the government to protect open internet; the marketplace was doing it and will continue to do it. All you are doing is adding a burden that does not need to be there.

The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.

I think the Internet is a huge positive.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

Internet users should be able to choose where to go online and which applications to use. Comcast, say, shouldn't be allowed to block Skype just because it could siphon the communications giant's telephone business.

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.

Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.

Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.

It's only natural that the heavy users help contribute to the investment to keep the Web healthy. That is the most important concept of net neutrality.

I support a free and open Internet.

The Internet can bring us much closer to the developed world.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.