“You stop and think about it, we are in the biggest information explosion I think in the history of the world. It's just in this generation that when you and I were growing up, there wasn't even a word for Internet or World Wide Web, for example. We had three TV channels. We were watching either Lucy…”— Phil McGraw, nbcnews.com
“Ed Alzate: So now you're down on your quarterback. Even though he and Mandy have a date tonight. Mike Baxter: How do you know that? Ed Alzate: Mandy and I are Facebook pals. I asked her to be my friend, she said yes. We call it friending. Mike Baxter: You should call it frightening. Ed Alzate: Mandy…”— Sid Youngers, Mike Baxter, Tim Allen, imdb.com
“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, en.wikiquote.org
“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 de…”— Tim Berners-Lee, amazon.com
“What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.”— Tim Berners-Lee, news.bbc.co.uk
“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 b…”— Tim Berners-Lee, en.wikiquote.org
“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, amazon.com
“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, w3.org
“Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.”— Tim Berners-Lee, ibm.com
“I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web.”— Tim Berners-Lee, amazon.com
“The Internet is the largest experiment involving anarchy in history. Hundreds of millions of people are, each minute, creating and consuming an untold amount of digital content in an online world that is not truly bound by terrestrial laws.”— Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen, amazon.com