“You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.” SpaceUniversalPropose Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.” WholeGamesReaderCatMiceCat And Mouse Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.” PeopleThinkingMindLongHas BeensAgeTermPlansWonderfulWrittenLong TermSoftwareShort Term Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.” BelieveScienceBeliefSocietyDependsAgree Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.” PeopleIfsWorldWritingUseDealsInternetProgramOriginalsPreparedSurpriseWideWorld Wide WebHtml Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“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.” PeopleWellsGivenInformationInternetComputerCurrentsDefinedCooperationExtensionsEnabling Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.” LooksReasonCreativityPiecesInternetDataRealising Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.” AbleHumanityGoalImagineInternet Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.” InternetNeededFrustratingExit Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“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.” PeopleWorldStoriesGrowthAbilitySpaceNumbersInformationInternetPagesWideAbstractLinksWorld Wide WebWeb Page Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . 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 to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move.” PeopleIfsTryingEndsWould BeMovingAsksCompanySituationMillionsSeriousInternetGloryEuropeWorriedFlawsPermissionTemptedInfrastructureRoyaltyNeutralityNet Neutrality Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.” Has BeensKeysInternetInnovationUniversalityEnablers Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.” GivingHumansEnvironmentDoorsWallInternetWindowServingApplicationDisplayAutomobileRefrigeratorsDashboards Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksWholeIssuesSecurityInternetRelatedPrivacyWay Of ThinkingPrivacy And Security Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“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.” SocialFreedomPartyInternetBuiltConnectionsBasesFundamentalsApplication Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“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.” ShouldImportantInformationUniversalComplexesTechniqueExtrasFancyLinkedFacilityGeneralitiesPortabilityInformation Systems Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“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.” LittlesReadingChanceWrittenComputerPagesLabelsYearningDocumentsOld DaysSlapProcessorsBrowsersWeb Page Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.” ThinkingYearsIdeasTogetherPeriods Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.” IfsProblem Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.” PeopleWayGrowing UpGrowingGrantedFingertips Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.” ScienceProjectsInventionProposal Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“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.” PeopleWantRightsThreatDebateOnlineBasic Rights Author:Tim Berners-Lee
