Vinton Cerf Quotes
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. 
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[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 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.
- Vinton Cerf
Al Gore actually deserves a lot of credit. In about 1986, he started asking questions like, 'Why don't we take these supercomputers and these optical fiber networks and put them together. Would that do anything?' Well, guess what? That eventually turned into the National Science Foundation Network, which became a core element of the Internet.
- Vinton Cerf