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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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I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
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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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If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.
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To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.
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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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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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Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.
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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
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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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If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.
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The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
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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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