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Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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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.
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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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When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
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Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.
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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.
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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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I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
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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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When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?
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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.
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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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Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
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The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
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Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
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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.
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To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.
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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.
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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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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.
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That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
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