I started thinking about the past 25 years as the Internet evolved, and I thought, ‘Gee, what should we be doing now so that in another 25 years, we are ready for whatever’s coming?’

My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers’ ability to get access to the services of their choice even though they...

Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

I’m projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department’s problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn’t want to be...

It took 30 years to get the Internet to where we are now. Thirty years from now, we have to assume there will be colonies on the moon, colonies on Mars and other planets and...

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address – just one – this country would use up one third of the...

Although I’ve had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

This is a place that’s just full of creative energy, and I like places like that,

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

Putting in capacity (in a business) that’s exponentially growing means putting more capacity than expected so you don’t get overrun by demand. You have to stay ahead of it.

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

If it didn’t work, then we couldn’t have built the Internet.

At some point, you can’t lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

avalanche of information that’s out there.

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.

Nobody has made any commitments,

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.

I’m still a strong proponent of getting IPv6 rolled out,

Because when these DDOS attacks swamp access lines, then filtering at the other end doesn’t help.

I will be continuing that work,

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.

dictate what people can do online.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

The time is now to think beyond the Earth. Lest you think this is all fantasy, let me assure you that it is quite real.

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

I would agree that the U.S. educational system, especially at the undergraduate and graduate levels, needs some work, but in the meantime, we seem to be cranking out people who are capable,

Of course, I’ve done small company things, too, but most of them have been nonprofit organizations, such as the Internet Society, and I’m on the board of a number of small companies.

This is not a new interest for me, … It’s just that I’ve spent the last decade or so working more on basic Internet infrastructure evolution at MCI. But I’ve been increasingly interested in focusing...

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

It’s conceivable that the IPN could go like its terrestrial counterpart, starting out as a network supporting scientific research and eventually evolving into something of commercial interest,

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.

don’t know you can’t do that, so they go of and do it.

Of course, you do have to get accustomed to being satisfied a little bit at second-hand by people who actually do some of the key work.

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.

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

Cerf is a wicked smart guy who knows the ins and outs of the internet and internet policies better than anyone,

I expect that the entertainment industry will have gone through its own convulsion in the same way the telecom industry will have gone through its.

The title is amazing,

People need to be exposed to what the various problems are in various parts of the business. And you can become isolated from that in a large company.

[But some people aren’t entirely happy with that arrangement. MCI WorldCom Inc. withdrew from the W3C after two years when it concluded that membership wasn’t worth $50,000 per year.] The structure of the W3C didn’t...

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

Users will also begin using their mobile devices to control and manage other Internet-enabled appliances (kitchen equipment, entertainment equipments, etc.),

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

It’s Chief Internet Evangelist, which suggests I should go from three-piece suits to some sort of ecclesiastical robes.

So one of the most important things we can do in the industry is make sure that the threat of cyberattacks is minimized as much as possible.

The structure of the W3C didn’t lend itself to quite the degree of freedom to contribute that the IETF does. We found it difficult to get points across and to influence what was happening.

We live in a very complex world.

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

These people just don’t know you can’t do that. So they just go out and do it. That’s the great thing of working with all these new folks.