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So while Cerf and Adami identified interesting quantum processes to describe underlying interactions, the irreversibility still comes from a statistical consideration of the interaction with a macroscopically large system.

Vint Cerf gets social credit for wearing a three-piece suit to work everyday; an entry-level Googler would get socially docked for it.

It's a problem, and I'm grateful to Vint Cerf for putting a spotlight on the issue.

Ever since Vint Cerf started working for Google, I've been less than impressed with his speeches.

I maintain there is a fundamental difference between the Cerf & Adami process (which is really just decoherence) and classical thermodynamic processes.

But Cerf offered Rand an alternative: if she gave up 7 cents per copy in royalties, she could have the extra paper needed to print Galt’s oration.

A company would have to provide the service, and I suggested to Mr Cerf that few companies have lasted for hundreds of years.

The guy was misquoted and both Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, pioneers and creators of many of the Internet's base technologies, recognize the man's achievements on this matter.

I think the lack of Vint Cerf stories has more to do with the temporal nature of news than any biases that people might have.

We’ll never get anywhere as a civilization if we let the mundanes think that your cousin Brian, who knows how to install antivirus software, is equivalent to Vint Cerf and Don Knuth.

The issues we're seeing regarding surveillance and censorship could have been hugely ameliorated if our protocols were designed with greater foresight, if people like Cerf and Berners-Lee were more aware of those risks.

Vint Cerf is promoting an idea to preserve every piece of software and hardware so that it never becomes obsolete - just like what happens in a museum - but in digital form, in servers in the cloud.

Choice Vint Cerf quote: "Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things," said his sarcasm.

Flip this around and look backwards: how much exists from 1000BC–1000AD (using the "1,000 years to 3,000 years" figure cited by Cerf)?

I was more impressed by: "The planets rotate, and we haven't figured out how to stop that," Cerf said.

"As the ’70s wound down, Cerf and Kahn abandoned their efforts to bake cryptography into TCP/IP, bowing to what they considered insurmountable barriers."

Cerf is talking about preserving execution environments, so you can run old software years later.

I've been thinking about this too, but I believe that Vint Cerf's solution is not feasible.

But don't sell yourself short just because you're not Vint Cerf!