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People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!
Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.
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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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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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The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
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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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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.
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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
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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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We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
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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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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.
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The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by 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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Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
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E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.
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