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Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“I don't believe in the sort of eureka moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. And it wasn't that suddenly it came to him.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Tim Berners-Lee
Tagged: eureka, idea, moment, Myth, Problem, Critical thinking, Problem Solving, Archimedes
“Cool URIs don't change.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Professional Web 2.0 Programming
Tagged: URI, uniform resource indentifier, Web, Technology, computer, Internet, World Wide Web, information system
“Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World(June 1994)
Tagged: Monopoly, monopolize, Web, Internet, World Wide Web, Network, Protocol, network protocols, Opinion, Unhappy
“Let's see whether the United States is capable as acting according to its important values, or whether it is, as so many people are saying, run by the misguided short-term interested of large corporations.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Wikiquote.org: Tim Berners-Lee
Tagged: Net Neutrality, Values, Important
“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World(June 1994)
Tagged: Time, computer, Dream, tendency, Lunch, Focus, Concentration, Distraction, lose track of time
“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Accessibility
Tagged: Web, Power, Universality, access, essential, Internet, fair, Open, Everyone
“I hope that Congress can protect net neutrality, so I can continue to innovate in the internet space. I want to see the explosion of innovations happening out there on the Web, so diverse and so exciting, continue unabated.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Wikiquote.org: Tim Berners-Lee
Tagged: Hope, Congress, Innovate, Internet, Net Neutrality, Innovation, Communication, Web, World Wide Web, diverse, internet space
“ I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it's related to, and how it's related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
Tagged: idea, information, system, Communication, related, Meaning, Structure, information systems, computer, information technology, Internet
“It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Web Development with Node and Express: Leveraging the JavaScript Stack
Tagged: webmaster, URI, allocation, information, identification, internet system, Technology, information communication technology
“Net Neutrality allowed me to invent the web. If protections are scrapped, innovators will have to ask ISPs for permission to get their ideas out – a disaster for creativity. A disaster for the internet.”
— Tim Berners-Lee
Tagged: Net Neutrality, Internet, Web, worldwide web, connectivity
“We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Tim Berners-Lee
Tagged: Society, Mindset, forward thinking, Thinking, Important, Democratic, Critical thinking
“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.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML
Tagged: web page, browser, Internet, World Wide Web, document, word processor, Technology, computer, Network, Compatibility, information transfer
“To follow a link, a reader clicks with a mouse (or types in a number if he or she has no mouse). To search and index, a reader gives keywords (or other search criteria). These are the only operations necessary to access the entire world of data.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, WorldWideWeb - Executive Summary
Tagged: The Web is Simple, Explaining the Internet, Links, World of Data, Innovation
“The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization(SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic, Increase Brand Impact, and Amplify Your Online Presence (Que Biz-Tech)
Tagged: Social, Creation, Design, Web, Internet, World Wide Web, weblike, Existence, Trust, technical, Collaboration, Communication, information systems, computer
“When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. … Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Freedom of connection, with any application, to any party, is the fundamental social basis of the Internet, and, now, the society based on it.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Wikiquote.org: Tim Berners-Lee
Tagged: invention, Web, World Wide Web, Internet, Free, free to use, Freedom of Speech, Freedom, Democracy, freedom of connection, Connection, information, Application, fundamental, Social
“The WWW model gets over the frustrating incompatibilities of data format between suppliers and reader by allowing negotiation of format between a smart browser and a smart server. This should provide a basis for extension into multimedia, and allow those who share application standards to make full use of them across the web.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, WorldWideWeb - Executive Summary
Tagged: The Web is Simple, Explaining the Internet, Links, World of Data, Innovation
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