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It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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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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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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I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.
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Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.
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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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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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If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.
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That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
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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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When you understand things, there's no more magic.
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When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
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Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.
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