Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

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• In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a…
• It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to…
• Things can change so fast on the internet.
• You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.
• It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.
• I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for…
• When you understand things, there’s no more magic,
• What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society…
• If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to…
• The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers…
• The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can…
• The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to…
• I invented the Web just because I needed it, really, because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.
• The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number…
• The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't have…
• Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.
• Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a…
• There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look…
• Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society…
• We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

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