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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.

Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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The concept of the Web is of universal readership.
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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 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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We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
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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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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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If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.
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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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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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[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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I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.
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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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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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Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.
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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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Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.
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Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
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