Tim Berners-Lee
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.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Technology
Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.Collection: Science
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Years
You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.Collection: Space
We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"Collection: Thinking
The concept of the Web is of universal readership.Collection: Internet
The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.Collection: Creativity
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.Collection: Science
The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.Collection: Dream
People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!Collection: Technology
It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.Collection: Cat
The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.Collection: Numbers
The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.Collection: Goal
When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.Collection: Usa
Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.Collection: Freedom
Cool URIs don't changeCollection: Don't Change
We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.Collection: Important
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.Collection: People
AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.Collection: Marketing
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Rights
Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Believe
A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.Collection: Creative
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.Collection: Believe
Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.Collection: Scientist
[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.Collection: Distance
It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.Collection: Technology
To be a hacker – when I use the term – is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.Collection: Programming