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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 nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.
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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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Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.
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When you understand things, there's no more magic.
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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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The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
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