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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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One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.
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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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Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
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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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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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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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Things can change so fast on the internet.
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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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To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.
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The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
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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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