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It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.

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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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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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I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
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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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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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[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
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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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It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.
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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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[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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E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.
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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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Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.
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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 concept of the Web is of universal readership.
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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
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