Quotes By Tim Berners Lee

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

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.

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.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

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.

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

The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.