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Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
English Inventor
Born: Jun 8, 1955
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You affect the world by what you browse. Tim Berners-Lee
You Technology World Browse Affect
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. Tim Berners-Lee
Future Technology Seen Past Web Envisaged Still Than Bigger Much
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
You Power Difficult Data Sort Going Different Available Many Imagine
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
Property Legal Face Important Ownership Society Complex Open Open Source Issue Issues Private Source Cultural Private Ownership Intellectual Intellectual Property Whole Here
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. Tim Berners-Lee
Life World Mind World Wide Web Web Inventor Like Because Context Private Private Life Referred Celebrity Being Famous Public Separate Wide Image Damages
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make. Tim Berners-Lee
You Innovation People Will Know Make Serendipity
Celebrity damages private life. Tim Berners-Lee
Life Private Private Life Celebrity Damages
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
Time People World Internet Tool Another Felt Realise Use Now
I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work. Tim Berners-Lee
Work You People Amazing Think Suppose Involved How Get Many Things
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. Tim Berners-Lee
You Technology Communicate Space Collaborative Web Through Sharing Idea Where Information Should Original Original Idea
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. Tim Berners-Lee
Business Care Design Easily Pretty Web About Data Attractive Ultimately Quickly dont Care Get Sites Want Much Users
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. Tim Berners-Lee
World Vision Reflect Other Everything Way Say Promote Web Could Computers Ideal Talk Democratically Get Done Where Want Such A Way Each
If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services. Tim Berners-Lee
You Problems Will Web Services
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly. Tim Berners-Lee
Important Responsibly Web Name Important Thing Domain Achilles Achilles Heel Heel Server Thing
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. Tim Berners-Lee
Good You Engineer Will Software Tell Any Interchangeable Interpreter
Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free. Tim Berners-Lee
Market Must See Web Most Infrastructure Companies Grow Now Larger
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
Good You People Will Websites Translation Live Enough Machine See Browse Allow Countries Know How Get Different Whether Different Countries Us Languages Eventually
One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation. Tim Berners-Lee
Future Me Innovation Internet Important Closed Kind Run One Of The Things About Computer Write Like Also Obviously Brake Use Whole Download Serious Platform Things Program
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
People Three Year Before New Things Months Slip Web About Browse Could New Around Discover Years Human Human Beings Them Then Agents Notice Beings Download Now Fast Things
The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it. Tim Berners-Lee
You Will Important Allow Idea New Most Piece Most Important Thing Important Thing Get Any The Most Important Hold Information Which Anywhere URL Should Thing
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split. Tim Berners-Lee
Everybody Assured Runs Web Web Site Could Split Knows End Up Site Who Compatibility
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
Sense Systems Vital About Talk Makes Provide Being Standards Professional Professionalism Professionals Last
Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases. Tim Berners-Lee
People Web Databases Look Existing Pages Designed Need
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
People Thinking Rapidly Find Some Web Had Spread Cult Issues Cults Very Personal Which Formula Who Deep Suddenly Believable
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. Tim Berners-Lee
Website People Simple Websites Giving Ways Kinds Rating Vary Like Because Different Fan Interested Organisations Different Ways Number
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. Tim Berners-Lee
Cancer Looking Books Those Find Some About Know Look Because Insurance Go Lot Up Get Going Want Form Figured Premium Whole Company
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