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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
BENNETT CERF

Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
BENNETT CERF

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
BENNETT CERF

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
BENNETT CERF

There have been too many books in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in a...
BENNETT CERF

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
BENNETT CERF

Censor: A self-appointed snoop hound who sticks his nose in other people's business
BENNETT CERF

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
BENNETT CERF

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
BENNETT CERF

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy
BENNETT CERF

A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in ...
BENNETT CERF

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize yo...
BENNETT CERF

For me, a hearty 'belly laugh' is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
BENNETT CERF

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
BENNETT CERF

What rotten luck. Obviously, another book at this time about exactly the same subject would be a sad...
BENNETT CERF

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
BENNETT CERF

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.
BENNETT CERF The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and ...
VINT CERF First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once bu...
VINT CERF At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you...
VINT CERF There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
VINT CERF In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technolo...
VINT CERF Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
VINT CERF Although the FCC has tried to introduce net neutrality rules to avoid abusive practices like favorin...
VINT CERF We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for ...
VINT CERF Virtually any appliance is going to be online. Appliances will talk to each other and to the power-g...
VINT CERF I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile ...
VINT CERF The Internet of Things tell us that a lot of computer-enabled appliances and devices are going to be...
VINT CERF Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share...
VINT CERF It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of ano...
VINT CERF Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
VINT CERF My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concer...
VINT CERF So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the a...
VINT CERF Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in ...
VINT CERF Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different thi...
VINT CERF The bottom-up, loosely-coupled, bilateral and multi-stakeholder practices that have created the netw...
VINT CERF What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas i...
VINT CERF I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent tha...
VINT CERF There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less ...
VINT CERF The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing ...
VINT CERF Al Gore actually deserves a lot of credit. In about 1986, he started asking questions like, 'Why don...
VINTON CERF Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China ne...
VINT CERF To be honest, I joined Facebook as an experiment. I accepted all invitations just to see how many pe...
VINT CERF There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the ...
VINT CERF Like almost every major infrastructure, the Internet can be abused and its users harmed. We must, ho...
VINT CERF The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for inst...
VINT CERF The immediacy of the mobile changes it from what we're accustomed to in the personal computing w...
VINT CERF One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had b...
VINT CERF There is a project that's underway called the interplanetary Internet. It's in operation bet...
VINT CERF I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of Dece...
VINTON CERF avalanche of information that's out there.
VINTON CERF I would agree that the U.S. educational system, especially at the undergraduate and graduate levels,...
VINTON CERF The title is amazing,
VINTON CERF These people just don't know you can't do that. So they just go out and do it. That's the great thin...
VINTON CERF The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our m...
VINT CERF Some people argue we should solve all the problems on Earth before going off the planet, but that...
VINT CERF Users will also begin using their mobile devices to control and manage other Internet-enabled applia...
VINTON CERF Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of th...
VINT CERF You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearin...
VINT CERF The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of G...
VINT CERF I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers [on the Net] by the end of De...
VINTON CERF If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptio...
VINT CERF If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptio...
VINT CERF The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
VINT CERF There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floatin...
VINT CERF Why would they be soliciting the opinion of a pun writer about this?
VINT CERF Load sharing across multiple servers helps reduce the impact of classic [distributed denial-of-servi...
VINT CERF Some of us feel NAT boxes are sort of an abomination because they really do mess about with the basi...
VINT CERF You simply can't keep up with the technology, ... so the laws won't apply.
VINT CERF Companies that rely on the Internet for their business models should be contributing to guarantee th...
VINT CERF The first satellites go into orbit around Mars in 2008, as many as a half dozen of them,
VINT CERF It would be a mistake to think that because a particular technology can be used to distribute illega...
VINT CERF It probably doesn't hurt to have a few gray hairs around the building. I'm very much excited about w...
VINT CERF In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the provi...
VINT CERF The Internet's open, neutral architecture has proven to be an enormous engine for market innovation,...
VINT CERF Global standards and interoperability are very powerful concepts. They drove the Internet, and they ...
VINT CERF We're not confident that the funds will be made available and we don't want to rely on them, ... The...
VINT CERF It's important for users to understand what risks they face and try to help them identify which soft...
VINT CERF For the last decade, we have been amazed and delighted by what we can do online. And yet people feel...
VINT CERF In the absence of any meaningful competition in the consumer broadband market, and without?consumer ...
VINT CERF 85% of all video we watch is pre-recorded, so you can set your system to download it all the time. Y...
VINT CERF There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; o...
VINT CERF Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle t...
VINT CERF History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from...
VINT CERF In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve th...
VINT CERF There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number ...
VINT CERF Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of g...
VINT CERF It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be int...
VINT CERF Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's a...
VINT CERF You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to...
VINT CERF Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and co...
VINT CERF What would happen if our clothes were Internet-enabled? Can you imagine if you lost a sock? You coul...
VINT CERF Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educatio...
VINT CERF There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this admin...
VINT CERF Remember, 'governance' is a big word that includes human rights, freedom of speech, economic...
VINT CERF The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It's a conduit for criminal activ...
VINT CERF We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and shar...
VINT CERF The three-piece suit has become sort of my trademark. You don't see them much anymore. It has se...
VINT CERF Cerf is a wicked smart guy who knows the ins and outs of the internet and internet policies better t...
VINTON CERF don't know you can't do that, so they go of and do it.
VINTON CERF I will be continuing that work,
VINTON CERF

Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But wh...
TONY BENNETT

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT

It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.
TONY BENNETT If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
BO BENNETT When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
BO BENNETT Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.
BO BENNETT An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
BO BENNETT Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
BO BENNETT Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.
BO BENNETT Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
BO BENNETT A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
BO BENNETT Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master...
BO BENNETT Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
BO BENNETT Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.
BO BENNETT A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
BO BENNETT

I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
MANU BENNETT

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
MANU BENNETT

I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
MANU BENNETT

To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.
MANU BENNETT

Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.
MANU BENNETT

The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the ba...
MANU BENNETT

If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it a...
MANU BENNETT

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are star...
MANU BENNETT

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at sch...
MANU BENNETT

I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.
NAFTALI BENNETT

Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the...
NAFTALI BENNETT

I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equat...
NAFTALI BENNETT

I love the people of Israel. I love the land of Israel. I love the Torah of Israel. I love the Israe...
NAFTALI BENNETT

Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young peopl...
NAFTALI BENNETT

When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
NAFTALI BENNETT

Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
NAFTALI BENNETT

There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own...
NAFTALI BENNETT

What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, thro...
NAFTALI BENNETT

I state in no uncertain terms: An order to uproot an Arab village or a Jewish settlement violates th...
NAFTALI BENNETT

There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.
NAFTALI BENNETT

You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be...
NAFTALI BENNETT

The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlemen...
NAFTALI BENNETT

I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
NAFTALI BENNETT

Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its bor...
NAFTALI BENNETT

You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
NAFTALI BENNETT

I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni...
NAFTALI BENNETT

The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.
NAFTALI BENNETT

Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerla...
NAFTALI BENNETT

The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hop...
NAFTALI BENNETT

Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as...
NAFTALI BENNETT

The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
NAFTALI BENNETT Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, ...
BO BENNETT To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, presen...
BO BENNETT If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employe...
BO BENNETT It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing...
BO BENNETT In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.
BO BENNETT A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
BO BENNETT

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it p...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key
ALAN BENNETT

Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key
ALAN BENNETT

This symposium will highlight the surprisingly diverse and positive role that cocoa can potentially ...
ALAN BENNETT I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not som...
HALEY BENNETT I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
HALEY BENNETT I love to dress up and create a narrative with my look.
HALEY BENNETT I prefer clean silhouettes that are almost utilitarian, but I'm not afraid to take risks on the ...
HALEY BENNETT I want to have a long career.
HALEY BENNETT I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
HALEY BENNETT I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. ...
HALEY BENNETT I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent st...
HALEY BENNETT I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives ...
HALEY BENNETT I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's li...
HALEY BENNETT When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrenc...
HALEY BENNETT I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
HALEY BENNETT I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
HALEY BENNETT I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
HALEY BENNETT I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way t...
HALEY BENNETT Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and ...
HALEY BENNETT We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.
HALEY BENNETT I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.
HALEY BENNETT I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
HALEY BENNETT I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
HALEY BENNETT

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and mora...
WILLIAM BENNETT As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
BECK BENNETT I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
BECK BENNETT Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They&#...
BECK BENNETT

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

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