Notable Quotes
Automation got us into this, and automation alone could not get us out. — February 2026
This was an unacceptable failure. We are implementing stronger safeguards including global kill switches for critical updates. — November 2025
"Content creators deserve full control over their work, whether they want to write for humans or optimize for AI... The real goal has always been to help create a new economic model that actually works for the next phase of the Internet." — Cloudflare blog, January 2026
"The problem is that as the web shifts from a search-driven interface to an AI-driven interface, fewer and fewer people are going to consume the original content... And that means that the incentives for creating content go away." — Fortune, February 2025
"The Internet's next business model will be powered by pay-per-use, fractional payments, and microtransactions—tools that shift incentives toward original, creative content that actually adds value." — On x402 and NET stablecoin, January 2026
Paraphrased: Prince and Cloudflare leadership have characterized both outages as the result of internal configuration errors, not cyberattacks, and have said that any outage of their systems is unacceptable and that they "failed [their] customers and the broader internet" in November.