Anyone who slaps a “this page is best viewed with Browser X” label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

— Tim Berners-Lee

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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

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

It’s mine – you can’t have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I’m getting in return.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Things can change so fast on the internet.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don’t know why they haven’t been done yet.

— Tim Berners-Lee

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it’s done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

— 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

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

— Tim Berners-Lee

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.

— 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

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

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

— Tim Berners-Lee

There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I’ll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you’re not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.

— Tim Berners-Lee

I don’t believe in the sort of “Eureka!” moment idea. I think it’s a myth. I’m very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

— Tim Berners-Lee

We need to look at the whole society and think, “Are we actually thinking about what we’re doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?”

— Tim Berners-Lee

E-mail is interesting. We can’t live with it, and you can’t live without it.

— Tim Berners-Lee

I found myself answering the same questions asked frequently of me by different people. It would be so much easier if everyone could just read my database.

— Tim Berners-Lee

I would have to create a system with common rules that would be acceptable to everyone. That meant as close as possible to no rules at all.

— Tim Berners-Lee

E-mail allowed messages to be sent from one person to another, but did not form a space in which information could permanently exists and be referred to.

— Tim Berners-Lee
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