Tim Berners-Lee
1955– · English computer scientist (born 1955)
Topics: web development, software design, open source, learning
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
— Tim Berners-LeeIt is 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-LeeThe trick... is to make sure that each limited mechanical part of the Web, each application, is within itself composed of simple parts that will never get too powerful.
— Tim Berners-LeeAnyone 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-LeeAnyone 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-LeeI 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-LeeWeb 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-LeeWhen 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.
— Tim Berners-LeeWhen I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission.
— Tim Berners-LeeI don't mind there being biased information out there. The important thing is that you should know, when you're on the web, whether you're looking at biased information or not.
— Tim Berners-LeeThe web setting out as something which was universal, something which anybody could use, I felt was very important. It's no good having something which will run on any platform if, in fact, there is a proprietary hold on it.
— Tim Berners-LeeSocial media companies are using machine-learning techniques to make users addicted to their platforms. These systems are designed to be addictive, feeding people more and more extreme content, making them alternately angry and sad.
— Tim Berners-LeeThe Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
— Tim Berners-LeeI 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-LeeThis project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access.
— Tim Berners-Lee