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I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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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 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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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 amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
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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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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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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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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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[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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To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.
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I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
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When you understand things, there's no more magic.
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We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
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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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What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.
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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
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