Vint Cerf Quotes

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

In this Internet age of shared information, even if you don't tell the people, they will find out.

I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal.

The fact that oversharing exists at all as a noteworthy notion is a relief, because I'm afraid that our younger generations could grow up having no idea what it even means to overshare.

There's so much information accessible to everyone now because the Internet is so powerful; social media is so powerful.

I don't really pay attention to much online.

I share more than most people probably do online.

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see.

I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.

I do know one thing: it's best not to read the Internet.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

I'm just so against kids being on Twitter because they are not thinking about the ramifications of what they are saying or the emotion of how they say it.

People know everything about everybody now.

I don't Twitter. I don't text for those very reasons. I don't want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.

Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?

I really don't like to tweet or Instagram anything about the people in my life just because I feel like I signed up for this, and I don't even know what this is yet. I do know that it could go anywhere, and I really don't want to sign other people in my life up for it without their permission or consent.