Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.

When you understand things, there's no more magic.

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

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 original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

You affect the world by what you browse.

It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good.

There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

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.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.