16 quotes by Tim Berners Lee

“When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“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

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“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

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“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

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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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“You affect the world by what you browse.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“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

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“I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.” — Tim Berners Lee

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