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 More Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee More Quotes From Tim Berners-Lee When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine. Tim Berners-Lee joininggroupspeople 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. Tim Berners-Lee lunchbusinessdream We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes. Tim Berners-Lee blametechnologymistake IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device. Tim Berners-Lee kindresponsibilityuse The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device. Tim Berners-Lee informationphonesimportant One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't. Tim Berners-Lee networkingissuesdata The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. Tim Berners-Lee engineeringphilosophicalphysics Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. Tim Berners-Lee scientistphysicist The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. Tim Berners-Lee informationspacedream It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993. Tim Berners-Lee growthtechnologythinking I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. Tim Berners-Lee believeideasthinking The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world. Tim Berners-Lee politicalchallengesworld When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. Tim Berners-Lee limitscreativeimagination Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet. Tim Berners-Lee connectionsfreedomparty The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. Tim Berners-Lee informationspaceideas Acceptance is the spiritual hammock. Tim Berners-Lee acceptancespirituallife The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one. Tim Berners-Lee browsersbuttonsobjectives 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. Tim Berners-Lee strings-attachedhousewater When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value? Tim Berners-Lee valuesinternetifs 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. Tim Berners-Lee simplenumberspeople
