"What I do has to be a function……" — Tim Berners-Lee
"What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do."
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103 Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee
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There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until…
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[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
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The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect-to help people…
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If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed…
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It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have…
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People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not…
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Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things…
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Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and…
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We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although…
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The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about…
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Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
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I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's…
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