"I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old."

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Source : "Vint Cerf: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2008.

Vinton Cerf

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“The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.”
“In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo. I like that entertainment has this usefulness - that it's ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect.”

Source : Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. September 5, 2012.
“The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.”
“What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.”
“Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower.”
“in serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.”

Source : Steve Reich (2002). “Writings on Music, 1965-2000”, p.53, Oxford University Press
“My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”
“...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.”

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