Vint Cerf

We need to think about the long-term preservation of digital information. We are creating a digital Dark Age.

Interoperability is not a feature; it is a requirement for the Internet.

The architecture of the Internet is based on a philosophy of openness and decentralization.

I never imagined that the Internet would become what it is today. We were just trying to solve a practical problem.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

The ability to communicate and share information is a fundamental human need.

We have to be careful not to design systems that are too brittle, that can't evolve.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

You can't stop the signal.

The work we did on TCP/IP was a team effort. It wasn't just Bob Kahn and me; it was a whole community.

We deliberately designed the Internet to have no central control.

The challenge is to keep the Internet open, global, and accessible to all.

I think we need to be thinking about interplanetary networking. The solar system Internet is coming.

The power of the Internet is that it connects people, not machines.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

The Internet has become the public square for the global village.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

Don't assume that the way things are is the way they have to be.

The Internet is a testbed for humanity's ability to cooperate on a global scale.

Code is law, but law must also govern code.