Tim Berners Lee Quotes
"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Future, Past)
"The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Dating, Life, Love, Medical, People, Development, Information)
"The important thing is the diversity available on the Web."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Diversity)
"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Information)
"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
(Related: Idea, Information, Will)
"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Computers, Work, People, Cooperation, Information, Meaning)
"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Engineering, Now, Physics)
"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
(Related: Computers, Vision, Talk, Want, World)
"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
(Related: Technology, People, Media)
"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Name)
"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Design, Care, Pretty, Want)
"Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Now, Royalty)
"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Information)
"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
(Related: Being, professionals, Sense, Talk)
"You affect the world by what you browse."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: World)
"Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: People)
"Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Control, Being, Problems)
"We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Thought, Diversity, World)
"Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Software, Will)
"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
(Related: Dreams, Time, Computer)
"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Space)
"Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Development)
"The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Control, Bureaucracy, Challenge, Open, World)
"Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Will)
"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: End)
"I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other."
- Tim Berners Lee
"I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: People, Machines, Projects)
"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
"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."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Legal, Society, Open, Ownership, Property)
"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
(Related: Work, Importance, professionals, Responsibility)
"Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Scientists)
"That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Idea)
"Celebrity damages private life."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Life, Celebrity)