Tim Berners-Lee Quotes - Page 5

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.

[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

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.

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.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

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.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.