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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.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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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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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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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.
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The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.
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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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We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
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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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