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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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In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
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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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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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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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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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When you understand things, there's no more magic.
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Things can change so fast on the internet.
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It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.
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I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
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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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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
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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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