Ad revenue is the only model for too many people on the web now, people assume today’s consumer has to make a deal with a marketing machine to get stuff for ‘free,’ even if they’re horrified by what happens with their data. Imagine a world where paying for things was easy on both sides.

Tim Berners-Lee

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The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.

Tim Berners-Lee

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E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live... by Tim Berners-Lee

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

Tim Berners-Lee

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Thank goodness it wasn't 'Exciting but vague'. by Tim Berners-Lee

Thank goodness it wasn't 'Exciting but vague'.

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Maybe it's a myth. by Tim Berners-Lee

Maybe it's a myth.

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It controls what people see, creates mechanisms for how people interact, it’s been great, but spying, blocking sites, repurposing people’s content, taking you to the wrong websites — that completely undermines the spirit of helping people create.

Tim Berners-Lee

Yet this research indicates that governments continue to shy away from publishing the very data that can be used to enhance accountability and trust.

Tim Berners-Lee

It's time to recognize 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

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Like all powerful tools, it can be used for good and evil, it can be used by good people and bad people, when you look at the Web you see humanity connected. Humanity has got some wonderful parts and some gruesome parts. You can't design an Internet that will suddenly turn everybody into saints. What you can do is design an Internet that is open.

Tim Berners-Lee

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

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It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

Tim Berners-Lee

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Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create t... by Tim Berners-Lee

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

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We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

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