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 More Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee More Quotes From Tim Berners-Lee 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. Tim Berners-Lee importantshould-haveideas What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do. Tim Berners-Lee ask-mefunctionpeople A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things. Tim Berners-Lee creativedoewonderful I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other. Tim Berners-Lee documentationserverclients Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split. Tim Berners-Lee splitsendsrunning 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. Tim Berners-Lee dataproblemneeds I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues. Tim Berners-Lee issuescommunicationthinking Celebrity damages private life. Tim Berners-Lee damageprivate-life It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently. Tim Berners-Lee good-thingswantpeople 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. Tim Berners-Lee mazesmindway 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 technologybusinessbeauty AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing. Tim Berners-Lee machinerymarketinguse Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText. Tim Berners-Lee proposalinventionscience In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted. Tim Berners-Lee growing-uppeopleway On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable. Tim Berners-Lee issuespeoplethinking Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. Tim Berners-Lee issuesimportantintellectual 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 walldoorsgiving 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 issuespeoplethinking I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life. Tim Berners-Lee damagemindworld Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. Tim Berners-Lee labelsreadinglittles
