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Tim Berners-Lee


English
June 8, 1955
Inventor
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We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.


Tim Berners-Lee
Tags: World New Need
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The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.


Tim Berners-Lee
Tags: Amazing You Over
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Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.


Tim Berners-Lee
Tags: People Look Need
It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tags: People About Been
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Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.


Tim Berners-Lee
Tags: Most See Now
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What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.


Tim Berners-Lee
Tags: People Me I Can
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
Tim Berners-Lee
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.
Tim Berners-Lee
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tags: Good You People
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tags: World Much Should
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tags: You Your Going
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tags: Future Me Like
One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.
Tim Berners-Lee