Robert Cailliau Quotes

13 quotes in 271 categories

• When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
• At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.
• Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.
• If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.
• To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.
• I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled…
• If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to…
• Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a…
• The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to…
• The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we…
• There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos.…
• We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as…
• What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like…

Browse Robert Cailliau Quotes by Category