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The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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London
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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
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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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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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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 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 Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
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It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.
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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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Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.
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The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.
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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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On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
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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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