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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
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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
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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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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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[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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I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
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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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