[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance. Tim Berners-Lee More Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee More Quotes From Tim Berners-Lee I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose. Tim Berners-Lee optimist humanity Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free. Tim Berners-Lee infrastructure royalty company The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . 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 to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move. Tim Berners-Lee europe people moving If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services. Tim Berners-Lee problem ifs The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. Tim Berners-Lee enabling information people 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. Tim Berners-Lee google dating people The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect. Tim Berners-Lee gaps talking world Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together. Tim Berners-Lee data organization running I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years. Tim Berners-Lee years ideas thinking I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries. Tim Berners-Lee different country people The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing. Tim Berners-Lee activity internet ifs Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet. Tim Berners-Lee technology done responsibility Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products. Tim Berners-Lee innovation technology people 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. Tim Berners-Lee cancer book looks 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 html flavor pages It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return. Tim Berners-Lee return use want Things can change so fast on the internet. Tim Berners-Lee internet We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on. Tim Berners-Lee issues media technology It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work. Tim Berners-Lee cat reader games 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 important should-have ideas
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