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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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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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I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
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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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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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Things can change so fast on the internet.
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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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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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On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
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People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!
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I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
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When you understand things, there's no more magic.
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The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
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It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.
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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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