Tim Berners-Lee
The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.Collection: Medical
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.Collection: Computers
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.Collection: Space
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Business
We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.Collection: Computers
Celebrity damages private life.Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Legal
When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.Collection: Imagination
I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.Collection: Hope
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.Collection: Future
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.Collection: Amazing
We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.Collection: Technology
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.Collection: Technology
You affect the world by what you browse.Collection: Technology
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
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.
There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
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.
Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.
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 Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.
Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.
That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.
The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
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.
Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.
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.
Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.
I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.
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.