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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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