"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."

— Tim Berners-Lee

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103 Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee has 103 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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