“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.” KnowsDreamLostBusinessMissingComputerTrackTendenciesHypocrisyUrgesLunchDreams Come TrueLost FriendshipPropensityMaking Dreams Come True Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“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.” PeopleKnowsDifferentCountryEnoughLanguageMachinesGood EnoughTranslationsWebsiteDifferent CountriesDifferent Languages Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.” KnowsEndsRunningSplitsSiteAssuredCompatibility Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.” KnowsWayMadeBrainConnectionsConnectedBillionsCellsNeurons Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.” KnowsShouldDoneResponsibilityCompanyTechnologySecurityHavensIndustryRight NowHolesSoftwareMailClientsStraightforwardDoing RightBrowsersSoftware Company Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.” PeopleKnowsInnovationSerendipity Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.” IfsKnowsWantLooksBookWholeFormCompanyCancerLook UpInsurance CompaniesPremium Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“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.” KnowsDifficultPagesFlavorReadershipBrowsersWeb PageHtml Author:Tim Berners-Lee