Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor
1955-06-08
Books by Tim Berners-Lee
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A Framework for Web Science
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Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee
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It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.
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The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
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I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
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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.
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Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
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You affect the world by what you browse.
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We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
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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.
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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.
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That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
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The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.
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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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Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.
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The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
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The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
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What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.
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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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The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
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The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.
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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.
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