You affect the world by what you browse.
Tim Berners-Lee
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
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.
We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
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.
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
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.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Things can change so fast on the internet.
I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.
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.
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.
Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.
It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.
The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.
One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
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.
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.
Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.
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.
It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.
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.
Celebrity damages private life.
That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
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.
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.
One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
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.
My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.
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.
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.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
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'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
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.
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.
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.
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
