Written communication is a tremendous help for me,... -Vint Cerf

Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard-of-hearing community as well.

Vint Cerf , Scientist
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There is a project that's underway called the interplanetary Internet. It's in operation between Earth and Mars. It's operating on the International S...
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily....
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing ...
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 pr...
There was something amazingly enticing about programming....
The post office doesn't guarantee delivery, but it tries really hard. It's called best efforts communication. If you put two postcards in the post-box...
Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, t...
You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of th...
We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic....
Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication....

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Communication is what sets us human beings apart from other beings in this world....
Growing up in a Singaporean Chinese family, for me food is almost the primary means of communication between family members, both immediate and extend...
All communication on today's networks are being monitored by government agencies and private companies....
Open communication is the biggest turn-on....
Communication is huge and a lot of it is knowing what to say, and it takes time....
I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication....
When it comes to personal communication, words are all we've got. It is the simple use of language that makes us human beings....
People find communication in families difficult - games can help with that....
That's always the biggest thing, especially in the secondary, is building not just communication and everything but friendships and bonds of off-the-f...
Part of playmaking is communication, when you have nobody on the field talking, particularly when you are under pressure, it becomes twice as hard....