Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

• 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.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Web, Own, Every, See, Difficult

• 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

  Topics in Computer, Dream

  Tags in Propensity, Lunch, Tendency, Urge, Using, Anyone, Time, Track, True, Make, Knows, Come, Miss, Lost

• Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Systems, Web, Create

• Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Web, People, Need, Design, Look

• Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Precious, Systems, Thing, Longer

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Social, People, Think, Fail, Communication

• 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

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Culture, Ownership, Face, Private, Property, Important

• The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diversity, Web, Available, Thing, Important

• The Mobile Web Initiative is important – information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Device, Web, Information, Available, Important

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Information, Allow, Piece, Thing, Idea, Important

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Professional, Responsibility, Understand, Importance

• 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.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Web, People, Things, Notice, Human

• That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Web, Insisted, Thing, Idea

• The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Web, Large, Relationship, Small, Both

• 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

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in General, Media, People, Build

• Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Quickly, Web, Even, Phone

• 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.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Provide, Systems, Professional, Sense, Talk

• 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

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Information, Thank-yous, People, Found

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Users, Ultimately, Sites, Data, Attractive, Quickly, Web, Want, Care, Get, Easily, Pretty, Much, Design

• 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

  Topics in Future, Past

  Tags in Web, Seen, Still

Tim Berners-Lee (31)

Birth:	8th June, 1955
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Computer Scientist, Inventor

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