You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication. Vint Cerf aidbirthcommunication Change image and share on social
What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network. Vint Cerf dialexceptionfax share on social
With Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once, if you wish, to multiple sites. Can you imagine then forcing the search engines to somehow not index that information? Vint Cerf articlecaptureengine share on social
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily. Vint Cerf accesseasilyhistory Change image and share on social
The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our own infrastructure. And we have to inter-connect to the public Internet. Vint Cerf absolutelybuildconnect Change image and share on social
It may seem like sort of a waste of time to play 'World of Warcraft' with your son. But you're actually interacting with each other. You're solving problems. They may seem like simple problems, but you're solving them. You're posed with challenges that you have to overcome. You're on a quest to gain certain capabilities. Vint Cerf capabilitychallengegain share on social
For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular. Vint Cerf appchangedifficult Change image and share on social
We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure. Vint Cerf globalideainfrastructure Change image and share on social
The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs. Vint Cerf 21stallowaudience share on social
We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt. Vint Cerf adoptcapturedigital share on social