Quotes By Tim Berners Lee

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

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.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

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.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

You affect the world by what you browse.

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

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

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.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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'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.

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.