Quote

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Tim Berners-Lee

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Inventor
Physicist
Programmer
University Teacher
Web Developer
London
England
TimBL
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Timothy John Berners-Lee
TBL
T. Berners-Lee
T Berners-Lee
Tim Berners Lee
T.J. Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
Communicate
Information
Space
Idea
Ideas
Collaborative
Sharing
Originals
Original

More quotes by Tim Berners-Lee

Image
The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
Things can change so fast on the internet.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
Tim Berners-Lee
Image
Cool URIs don't change
Tim Berners-Lee