Tim Berners-Lee Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.”

“I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be independent choices.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.”

“The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.”

“I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.”

“I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.”