Everybody who runs a Web site knows we’re not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it’s a tool that we use in this world. – Tim Berners-Lee
Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free. – Tim Berners-Lee
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it’s managed responsibly. – Tim Berners-Lee
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
Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly. – Tim Berners-Lee
It’s difficult to imagine the power that you’re going to have when so many different sorts of data are available. – Tim Berners-Lee
The world’s urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect. – Tim Berners-Lee
Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together. – Tim Berners-Lee
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
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
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
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
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases. – Tim Berners-Lee
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
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. – Tim Berners-Lee
I don’t know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people’s websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries. – Tim Berners-Lee
