In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted. – Tim Berners-Lee
The Mobile Web Initiative is important – information must be made seamlessly available on any device. – Tim Berners-Lee
When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. – Tim Berners-Lee
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. – Tim Berners-Lee
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other. – Tim Berners-Lee
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. – 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
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. – Tim Berners-Lee
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems – about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee