Vint Cerf Quotes

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

The Internet has transformed many parts of our daily lives, touching everything from how we find information to how we go shopping, get directions, and even stay in touch with friends and family.

As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch.

IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.

Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

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

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

We are critically dependent on the Internet, and it's ingrained in our way of life.

We had no idea that things like Facebook and Twitter, and all these other concepts, would ever happen.

My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.

When you give people ability to stay connected with all the people they care about, and you make it so they can express new things about themselves or in communication with other people who they care about, then you just open up new possibilities. You make it so people can stay connected in ways that they couldn't before.

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

I've been studying the psychology of online connectivity for more than 30 years.

Facebook really has made the world a better place.

The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.

I am a little curmudgeonly about new media.

I hit Instagram and Twitter as soon as I wake up. And then I check my texts and emails. It's funny that I check social media before I check my email.

I wouldn't be without Google, and I love Facebook.