Quote by David Sawyer McFarland

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

— Tim Berners-Lee

“one URI, one resource, many representations.”

— Thibault Denizet

“browsers you use on your computer, doesn't require you to enter the http:// part of the URL”

— Greg Holden

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication…

— Jesse James Garrett

“If you crank the pedantry and purism up, the Web is about URIs and REST. If you crank the controversy down, the Web is…

— Tim Bray

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which…

— Tim Berners-Lee

“Well, it’s a browser policy, and it says you can’t retrieve data from a domain that is different from the domain the page itself…

— Eric Freeman

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise…

— Tim Berners-Lee

“The term REST is often abused to describe any URL that returns JSON instead of HTML. What”

— Julia Elman

“The Web is broken and we need to fix it.”

— Peter Seibel

“A website is a window through which your business says hello to the world.”

— Amit Kalantri

In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name…

— Marc Ostrofsky