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History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate.

From Vint Cerf

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

From Vint Cerf

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

From Vint Cerf

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

From Vint Cerf

I am annoyed by people that send messages via FaceBook because I get an e-mail telling me there is a message on FaceBook - so I end up processing two messages for every one sent.

From Vint Cerf

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

From Vint Cerf

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

From Vint Cerf

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.

From Vint Cerf

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

From Vint Cerf

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

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