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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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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 internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
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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 have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
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