Tim Berners-Lee

“I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.”

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

“The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.”

“Things can change so fast on the internet.”

“You affect the world by what you browse.”

“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.”

“I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.”

“Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.”

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

“When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Celebrity damages private life.”

“I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.”