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The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.
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Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.
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In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
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The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
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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 ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.
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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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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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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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I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
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If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.
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