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“I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be independent choices.”
“What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.”
“Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.”
“The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.”
“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.”
“In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.”
“When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?”
“The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.”