Html Quotes

• The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can’t always tell the difference.

  Jeff Atwood

  Pain, Exercise, Differences

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• 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, People, Use

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• It makes my head explode when there are people who think you can do everything in HTML.

  James Gosling

  Thinking, People, Can Do

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• This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

  Neal Stephenson

  Tape, World, Paper

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• I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.

  Bill Gates

  Communication, Thinking, Together

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• All the PHP code I've seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML, replicated in slightly-varying form in dozens of places.

  Tim Bray

  Dozen, Spaghetti, Form

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• It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been growing at a steady rate. It's just that now it's so much more accessible because of information technology. The consensus is that a Web crawler could get to a terabyte of publicly accesible HTML. A terabyte is about a million books. the UC Berkeley library has about 8 million books, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books.

  Hal Varian

  Book, Technology, Uc Berkeley

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• The fundamental deficiency in HTML is that it reduces hypertext and the intertwinedness of human communication to a question of how it is rendered and what happens when you click on it. ... HTML is to the browser what PostScript is to the laser printer.

  Erik Naggum

  Communication, Fundamentals, Lasers

  "LISP and AI". Usenet article, groups.google.com. May 10, 2000.

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• The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. And that creates a society in which people display no responsibility whatsoever. That's the problem.

  Jaron Lanier

  Responsibility, Simple, People

  "Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel - interview". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.

  Jeph Jacques

  Pages, Tvs, Forums

  Call Out Boy‏ @jephjacques, twitter.com. September 4, 2009.

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• Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html)

  Michael C. Burgess

  Reading, Opportunity, Careers

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• The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the SUBMIT button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

  Marissa Mayer

  Keys, Long, Google

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• I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Scripts, Now And Then, Tweak

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• A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.

  Mark Shurtleff

  Utah, Justice, Directors

  Mark L. Shurtleff ‏ @MarkShurtleff, twitter.com. June 18, 2010.

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• In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Flavor, Pages, Difficult

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