Vint Cerf Quotes

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.

I try not to read Google.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television.

At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.

In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links.

It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

I'm pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if it's become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic I'm interested in.

'Dependent web' platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google and Yahoo are where people go to discover and share new content. Independent sites are the millions of blogs, community and service sites where passionate individuals 'hang out' with like-minded folks. This is where shared content is often created.

Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.

All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Many well-meaning attempts to address public concern about privacy reflect an outdated understanding of the contemporary data ecosystem.

Everything is changing now that we are in the cloud in terms of sharing our data, understanding our data using new techniques like machine learning.

There are lots of new products and new services making adding content easier. But there's not many people on the other side helping users digest that content.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no good. It can even be done algorithmically. Writing is process-intensive activity.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life. I just think that technology and information, it's overwhelming at the moment, but it's really going to make life better.