A biography for Tim Berners-Leehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.”
“Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.”
“I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.”
“I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.”
“Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.”
“The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.”
“I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.”
“We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.”
“It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.”
“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.”
“I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.”
“That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.”
“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.”
“One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.”
“The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.”
“Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.”
“Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.”