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It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.

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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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I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.
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Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.
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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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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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The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
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The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
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In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
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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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Things can change so fast on the internet.
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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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If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.
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I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
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I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
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