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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.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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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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I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
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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 ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.
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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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We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.
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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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The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.
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The concept of the Web is of universal readership.
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I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.
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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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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 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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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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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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