Tim Berners-Lee Quotes - Page 3

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

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.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

Celebrity damages private life.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

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.

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

Things can change so fast on the internet.

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.

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.