Tim Berners-Lee quotes - page 3

I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it's related to, and how it's related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything. (Tim Berners-Lee)
It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available. View quote
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We've lost a fighter. We've lost somebody who put huge energy into righting wrongs. View quote
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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. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards. View quote
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Despite the buy don't build credo I came to the conclusion that I was going to have to create the web on my own. View quote
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The fact that we're all connected, the fact that we've got this information space - does change the parameters. View quote
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In an extreme view, the world can be seen as only connections, nothing else. View quote
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The web is more a social creation than a technical one. View quote
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If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along. View quote
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When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. View quote
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We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal. (Tim Berners-Lee)
On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable. View quote
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I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries. View quote
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In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted. View quote
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The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. View quote
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I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures. View quote
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Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make. View quote
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When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. View quote
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It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page. View quote
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The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect. View quote
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Things can change so fast on the internet. (Tim Berners-Lee)
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. View quote
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The important thing is the diversity available on the Web. View quote
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I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions. View quote
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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. View quote
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Photo: Wikimedia commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: English Inventor
Born: June 8, 1955
Quotes count: 101
Wikipedia: Tim Berners-Lee

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