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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 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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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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If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.
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When you understand things, there's no more magic.
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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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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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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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I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
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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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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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In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
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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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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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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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The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
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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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