Tim Berners-Lee quotes

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Freedom #Party #Fundamentals

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#People #Serendipity #Innovation

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Diversity #Challenges #World

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Dream #Business #Lunch

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Scientist #Physicist

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#People #Working Together #Toys

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect,
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Essentials #Disability #Aspect

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Responsibility #Use #Kind

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Phones #Important #Information

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Water #No Strings Attached #House

When you understand things, there’s no more magic,
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Magic

You affect the world by what you browse.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Technology #World

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Software #Interpreter

I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Simple #Numbers #Giving

The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Giving #Over You #Architecture

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Thinking #Years #Ideas

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Humanity #Optimist

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Readership

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Technology #Thinking #People

Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Life #Spiritual #Acceptance

The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Numbers #Space #People

I invented the Web just because I needed it, really, because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Exit #Internet #Frustrating

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Lasts #Professionalism #Standards

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Information #Use #Should

Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Technology #People #Innovation

It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Want #Return #Use

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Technology #Media #Issues

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Heart #Simple #Language

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Imagination #Creative #Limits

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Html #Pages #Flavor

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Dream #Space #Information

There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Thinking #Issues #People

It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Years #Able #Duty

Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Sex #Technology #Legends

When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Usa #People #Worried

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#People #Machines #Doe

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#People #Joining #Groups

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Mistake #Technology #Blame

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

#People #Function #Ask Me

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Creative #Doe #Wonderful

Cool URIs don't change
-- Tim Berners-Lee

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Unhappy #Trying #Example

I think in general it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings, and the Web's a form of communications, so it generally should be good.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Communication #Thinking #Way

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Important #Fancy #Information

Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Reading #Littles #Pages

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 will allow you to get hold of it.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Ideas #Important #Pieces

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Problem

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Growing Up #People #Way

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Science #Proposal #Invention

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Rights #People #Want

The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our web-like existence in the world . We clump into family , association, and companies.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Goal #Support #World

Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#Keys #Innovation #Internet