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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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Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.
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We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
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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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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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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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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
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The concept of the Web is of universal readership.
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We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
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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 dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
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Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.
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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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Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.
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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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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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When you understand things, there's no more magic.
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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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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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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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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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