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Tim Berners Lee Inspirational Quotes (67)

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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.
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[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
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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.
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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.
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It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.
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[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.
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My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.
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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.
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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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One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.
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Cool URIs don't change
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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.
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AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.
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If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.
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The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
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Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.
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The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.
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The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.
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E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.
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If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.
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In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
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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.
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The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
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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.
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