"There was a time when the community that……" — Robert Cailliau
"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. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe."
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Robert Cailliau
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13 Quotes by Robert Cailliau
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When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems…
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At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.
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Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.
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If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there…
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To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.
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I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics…
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If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with…
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Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are…
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The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most…
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The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the…
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We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do…
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What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help…
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