I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done! — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
I invented the Web just because I needed it, really, because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast,… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web,… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect-to help people work together-and… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations,… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere -… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect, — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
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