All Tim Berners-Lee Quotes
- I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues. Communication
- We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges. Challenges
- Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always… Always Obliged
- I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see… Allow
- Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly. Compared
- Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split. Assured
- I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other. Basically Wrote
- I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions. Along
- I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures. Barriers
- I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work. Amazing
- It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and… Click
- Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free. Companies
- One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't. Data
- Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. Able
- That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon. Basic
- The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing. Activity
- The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly. Achilles
- The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. Collaborative
- The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. Bigger
- The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. Both