web development

• It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.

  — Vernor Vinge

• Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?

  — Bill Gates

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

  — Tim Berners-Lee

• [Of the web] It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.

  — Ted Nelson

• It 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-Lee

• Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?

  — Ward Cunningham

• JavaScript is built on some very good ideas and a few very bad ones. The very good ideas include functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. The bad ideas include a programming model based on global variables.

  — Douglas Crockford

• The 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-Lee

• My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.

  — Matt Mullenweg

• Every bit of freedom that a designer has for creativity and good is also freedom for abuse. That’s true not just on the web, but in every single aspect of the online world. (Scott, Why The Web Is Such A Mess, 23 November 2020)

  — Tom Scott

• 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

• The Web provided me with a much needed realization that information cannot be fully separated from its presentation, and showed me something I knew without verbalizing explicitly, that the presentation form we choose communicates real information.

  — Erik Naggum

• Browser compatibility problems are nature's way of saying "stop trying to be so fuckin' clever".

  — Jamie Zawinski

• The next billion people who'll get online access will enter the Internet with mobile devices. It's difficult to write Wikipedia articles on smart phones. So we're investing more and more resources to improve access for these people.

  — Jimmy Wales

• 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

• Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

  — Jamie Zawinski

• In the near future, the web is going to be the master copy of human knowledge. We need to figure out ways to use that knowledge.

  — Håkon Wium Lie

• If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.

  — Larry Ellison

• Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.

  — Erik Naggum

• Over the last twenty years, the worldwide net had come to be a midden of bogus sites and recursive fraudulence…telling truth from fantasy was often the hardest thing about using the web.

  — Vernor Vinge