Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

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• There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons.…
• [The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
• The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect-to help people work together-and not as a…
• If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because…
• It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were…
• People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!
• Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing…
• Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get…
• We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of…
• The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.
• Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
• I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to…
• If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.
• It's possible to live without the Web. It's not possible to live without water. But if you've got water, then the difference between somebody who…
• The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect,
• The concept of the Web is of universal readership.
• The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
• What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find…
• The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together —…
• When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

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