Internet Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project

— Tim Berners-Lee

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Things can change so fast on the internet.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect,

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere -…

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are…

— Tim Berners-Lee

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could…

— Tim Berners-Lee

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure…

— 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,…

— Tim Berners-Lee

I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings…

— Tim Berners-Lee

Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for…

— 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…

— Tim Berners-Lee

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically, where we have…

— Tim Berners-Lee

The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web,…

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

— Tim Berners-Lee

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

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

Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

— 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

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

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

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

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

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

— Tim Berners-Lee

It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

— Tim Berners-Lee

I invented the Web just because I needed it, really, because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

— Tim Berners-Lee