Vint Cerf Quotes

The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

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.

While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billion population.

The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

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.

And the more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

The Internet is a global resource that does not belong to any one nation or alliance. It has contributed to amazing economic growth, collaboration, civil education, and awe-inspiring lifestyle improvements for billions of people.

The Internet removed geography as a significant obstacle that formerly prevented out-of-the-way places from being active players in the New Economy.

The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.

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

I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.

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

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that view on a Web site somewhere. Third-world villagers without electricity have cellphones.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

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

It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the world.

Essentially, it's not that technology or cyberspace is some parallel universe that operates tangentially from the world we know; it is simply a new front in the international system.

I think the Internet is right on time. I think it's very important. It's reaching out to millions of people. Even the most slimiest and grimiest hood cats out got iPhones and Smartphones so they're able to view everything on the Internet, so they're well in tuned to what's going on.

The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

Connectivity is a human right.

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