Tim Berners-Lee Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Creativity, Data, Looks

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• One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

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  Data, Issues, Networking

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

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• The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

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  Internet, Readership, Universal

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

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  Keys, Innovation, Internet

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• The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

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  Science, Technology, People

  "Weaving the Web". Book by Tim Berners-Lee, 1999.

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

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  Documentation, Clients, Server

  "Interview with the Web’s Creator". Interview With Chris Oakes, www.wired.com. October 23, 1999.

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• If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

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  Taken, Technology, People

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

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  Beauty, Business, Technology

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• 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.

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  Cancer, Book, Looks

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

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  Dream, Space, Information

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• People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

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  Technology, Thinking, People

  "The Web’s Creator". Interview with Chris Oakes, www.wired.com. October 23, 1999.

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• 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 end in the USA.

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  Usa, People, Net Neutrality

  "Net Neutrality: This is Serious". www.mediamatters.org. June 2006.

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• 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.

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  Freedom, Party, Connections

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

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• One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Different

  "Web inventor: Online life will produce more creative children". Interview with Lila King, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2005.

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• It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

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  Cat, Games, Reader

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• 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.

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  Data, Needs, Problem

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• 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.

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  Numbers, Space, People

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• The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.

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  Goal, Support, World

  "Weaving the Web". Book by Tim Berners-Lee, 1999.

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• 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.

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  Heart, Simple, Language

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• Cool URIs don't change

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  Don't Change

  Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, James A. Hendler (2006). “A Framework for Web Science”, p.117, Now Publishers Inc

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• AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.

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  Marketing, Use, Machinery

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• Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.

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  Life, Spiritual, Acceptance

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

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  Imagination, Creative, Limits

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• We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

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  Important, Technique, Fancy

  "Information Management: A Proposal". www.w3.org. March 1989.

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• 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.

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  Mind, Way, Mazes

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