Vinton Cerf

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So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

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 entire public IP address space.

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

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

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

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

We live in a very complex world.

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.

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.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

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