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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.
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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Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.
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Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
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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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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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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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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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[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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When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
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I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
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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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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
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Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.
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The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.
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The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.
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Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
Tim Berners-Lee
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
Tim Berners-Lee
I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
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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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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.
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