Quotes By Tim Berners Lee

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

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.

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

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'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

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.

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.

Things can change so fast on the internet.

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.

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

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

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.

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.

You affect the world by what you browse.

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.