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All Tim Berners-Lee Quotes
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
Tim Berners-Lee
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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
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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.
Tim Berners-Lee
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The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.
Tim Berners-Lee
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The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.
Tim Berners-Lee
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I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
Tim Berners-Lee
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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 in
Technology
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Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
Tim Berners-Lee
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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.
Tim Berners-Lee
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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 in
Business
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