That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.
I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
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.
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
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.
Celebrity damages private life.
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems – about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
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.
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.
I don’t mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.
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.
Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.
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.
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.
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.