In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Departments problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didnt want to be confined to a single network technology. – Vinton Cerf
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. – Vinton Cerf
Im projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time. – Vinton Cerf
The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. – Vinton Cerf
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didnt think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. – Steve Ballmer