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Vinton Gray Cerf ForMemRS, (/sɜːrf/; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-inventor Bob Kahn. His contributions have been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Marconi Prize and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

Everybody, People, Privacy, Town, Towns

The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.

Architectural, Design, Impact, Remarkable, Success

I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.

Helping Others, Masses, Process, Real, Thinking, Virtual

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

Administration, Based, Ignores, Reality, Serious

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

Amount, China, Energy, Increasingly, Japan

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

Access, Internet, Lives

The Internet reflects the societies in which we live, and so the content on the Net and some of the abuses that you see on the Net are reflections of that.

Abuse, Internet, Reflection, Reflects, Societies

On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!

Email, Firsts, Serious, Serious Work, Spam

Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust,. . We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.

Computational, Evolution, Seeing, Thinking, Way

My belief is that there will be very large numbers of Internet-enabled devices on the Net - home appliances, office equipment, things in the car and maybe things that you carry around. And since they're all on the Internet and Internet-enabled, they'll be manageable through the network, and so we'll see people using the Net and applications on the Net to manage their entertainment systems, manage their, you know, office activities and maybe even much of their social lives using systems on the Net that are helping them perform that function.

Activities, Car, Home, Manage, Numbers, Using

At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.

Crackdown, Danger, Dangers, Google, Government, Net

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

Arpa, Nervous, Stanford, Teach

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

Billions, Maybe, Today, Users

Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.

Destroy, Internet, Light, Media, World

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

Everything, Learn

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Amazingly, Enticing, Programming

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year. . equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.

Business, Dog, Equivalent, Seven, Years

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

Dent, Digital, Distribution, Film, May, Needs

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.

Google, Ideas, Long, Matter, Table, Wonderful

We live in a very complex world.

Complex, Complexes, Live, World

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