Tim Berners-Lee Quotes
2 min readMay 16, 2023
- 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.
- I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.
- Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.
- 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.
- 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.
- We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
- Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
- Innovation is serendipity, so you don’t know what people will make.
- Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.
- I suppose it’s amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don’t work.
- 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.
- Everybody who runs a Web site knows we’re not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
- 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.
- The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
- Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
- The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
- It’s difficult to imagine the power that you’re going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.
- 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.
- Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
- I think IT projects are about supporting social systems — about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
