Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

"One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation."
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"One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation."
Tim Berners-Lee
"Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on."
Tim Berners-Lee
"We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes."
Tim Berners-Lee
"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past."
Tim Berners-Lee
"You affect the world by what you browse."
Tim Berners-Lee
"When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination."
Tim Berners-Lee
"The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website."
Tim Berners-Lee
"It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it."
Tim Berners-Lee
"The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing."
Tim Berners-Lee
"Celebrity damages private life."
Tim Berners-Lee
"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation."
Tim Berners-Lee
"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal."
Tim Berners-Lee
"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
Tim Berners-Lee
"I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures."
Tim Berners-Lee
"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."
Tim Berners-Lee
"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."
Tim Berners-Lee
"The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information."
Tim Berners-Lee
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