Tim Berners-Lee Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• 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

  Dream, Business, Lunch

  Interview with Kris Herbst for Internet World, www.w3.org. June 1994.

• 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

  People, Information, Enabling

• Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Reading, Labels, Littles

  "MIT Technology Review" Magazine, July 1996.

• One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Running, Writing, Innovation

  "Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook". Interview with Ian Katz, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2012.

• When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  People, Groups, Joining

• Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Mind, Way, Mazes

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