Top 35 Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

It’s difficult to imagine the power that you‘re going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

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

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn’t even have words like click and jump and page.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

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.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems – about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

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.

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.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

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.

I’m an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

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.

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.

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don’t know what people will make.

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.

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

We can’t blame the technology when we make mistakes.

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

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

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

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.

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.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don’t.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we’re not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

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.

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.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

You affect the world by what you browse.