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Vinton Cerf
June 23, 1943 -
Nationality: American
Category: Inventor
Subcategory: American Inventor

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

   

We live in a very complex world.

   

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

   

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

   

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

   

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.

   

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

   

In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.

   

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

   

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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