Tim Berners-Lee Quotes About Internet

Quotes about: Internet

• It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Freedom, Mean, Political

  "Countries failing to protect women online, says report" by Alex Hern, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2014.

• The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Goal, Humanity, Able

• 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.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Strings Attached, Water, House

• [The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Distance, Science, Clay

• 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

• There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Thinking, Issues, People

• I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Exit, Internet, Frustrating

  "Rushes Sequences - Tim Berners-Lee interview - Ghana (Video)". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.bbc.co.uk. October 26, 2009.

• The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Numbers, Space, People

• The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Moving, Europe, People

• Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Keys, Innovation, Internet

• Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Wall, Doors, Giving

• The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Creativity, Data, Looks

• If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Writing, Html, People

• 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.

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

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Beauty, Business, Technology

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

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Internet, Activity, Ifs

  "Tim Berners-Lee urges government to stop the snooping bill" by Ian Katz, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2012.

• Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Freedom, Party, Connections

  "Net Neutrality: This is Serious". Tim Berners-Lee blog, June 2006.

• 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.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Independent, Choices, Looks

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

• When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Internet, Ifs, Values

• The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Internet, Readership, Universal

• The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Dream, Space, Information

• Things can change so fast on the internet.

  Tim Berners-Lee

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