Tim Berners-Lee Quotes, Thoughts and images
The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
When you understand things, there's no more magic.
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
You affect the world by what you browse.
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.
If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.
To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.
The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.
The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
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.
People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!
You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.
It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.
The concept of the Web is of universal readership.
Cool URIs don't change
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.
When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.
One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.
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.
Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.
Things can change so fast on the internet.
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
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.
The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.