I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions. — 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
It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some… — 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
Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or… — 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… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to… — 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 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 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
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
I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in… — 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
When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely.… — 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… — 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
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
What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to… — 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
I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so… — 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
I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same… — 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
My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been… — 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
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
